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TIL Most fathers of children born to teen mothers are over 20

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woVOJ TIL that in 1878, the passenger steamer SS Princess Alice sunk on the Thames right where 75 million gallons of London's raw sewage had just been discharged. 16 of the survivors later died from ingesting the water. In response, London immediately starting shipping its sewage out to sea for dumping.
Z80mD TIL It's theorised that our sense of smell may use quantum tunneling to measure the vibrational states of molecules and there is growing evidence to support this theory.
oRDg8 TIL the term "con man" is short for confidence man
oRR1E TIL Brian O'Leary wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the physical properties of the Martian surface and was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in 1967 for a potential manned Mars mission when it was still in NASA's program plan
nWy6W TIL Ron Moody (Fagin from the Oliver film) was also a Jewish WW2 RAF radar technician.