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TIL: the birth certificate was invented as a way to verify people’s ages in order to enforce new child labor restrictions

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BrnlL TIL that radio announcers (Canada) don’t choose the music that is played in between their ‘chats’ on air. That is done by the music director. I always blamed the DJ.
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0dAwj TIL that Australian aboriginal tribes have oral history and legends that accurately describe old geographic features and document the sea rise that are between 7,000 and 18,000 years old.
nWDAW TIL the vampire squid is neither an octopus nor a squid and it's eyes are proportionately the largest in the animal kingdom. If agitated, it ejects a sticky cloud of bioluminescent mucus which is able to stick to predators, making them more visible to secondary predators