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TIL Babies are born with around 300 bones. That's 94 more than adults have.

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mwwO TIL diamonds aren’t rare; their demand is a marketing invention. In 1938 De Beers hired an ad agency who arbitrarily decided that a diamond engagement ring is worth 1 month’s salary. It worked so well they increased it to 2 months’ salary. De Beers carefully restricts supply to keep the prices high.
PDBG TIL Chelsea Peretti’s (Gina from Brooklyn Nine-Nine) brother founded Buzzfeed
kOR41 TIL: A study conducted in Finland found that BMW and Audi drivers are the most likely to ignore traffic regulations and drive recklessly. They are also more likely to be self centered, unempathetic, and view themselves as superior. Interestingly, the connection mostly applies to men.
oQ4L TIL Rich kids bragging on social media, such as Instagram, are unwittingly providing incriminating evidence for prosecutors about their parents’ fraud schemes. Cybersecurity firms say they have been using social media evidence to nail fraud and assets in up to 75 percent of their cases.
j6av TIL that the 1984 Challenger flight brought a beehive into space. Because bees do not defecate inside their hive, all 3,300 bees held it in for 7 days.