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TIL children develop and share their own unique folklore (called 'childlore'), including rhymes and games, which often disappear by adolescence and go unnoticed by adults.

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4X4Aa TIL that throughout history, about 80 percent of women reproduced, whereas only 40 percent of men did
oOZL TIL that Lee Kuan Yew, the late prime-minister of Singapore was the only person in the world to bring a third-world country to the status of a ultra modern country in a single generation.
nXX7 TIL the world’s oldest choir, in Germany, has survived the Thirty Years War, the plague, and both the Nazi and Communist regimes to mark their 801st anniversary this year.
X0JgQ TIL Rockstar hired real-life gang members and ex-convicts in GTA V to voice some of the characters. They also gave them the freedom to improvise the script and say what they would say in real life, to make the dialogue more realistic and authentic.
160pr TIL: In 536 AD, a volcanic eruption triggered a "year without a summer," leading to global darkness, extreme cold, crop failures, and famine. This climate catastrophe marked one of the worst periods in human history, nearly ending civilizations due to widespread social and economic collapse.