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TIL Between 1992 and 2013, the Amish population increased by 120%, while the US population increased by 23%.

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4X6Ko TIL of a woman born with 3 fingers on her right hand. After a tragic accident, she lost her right hand and later developed a phantom limb...with 5 fingers, suggesting her brain "knew" what a hand was supposed to feel like.
Z8dbG [TIL] About the "Chapwood Index" which seeks to expose problems with consumer price index. By using a more updated "basket of goods" and showing fluctuations by geographical area.
b9dEa TIL in the original 1938 comics, Superman could not fly, but he could leap tall buildings in a single bound. Superman gained the ability to fly in the second episode of the radio serial in 1940
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yOMv TIL While filming The African Queen (1950) in the Congo,everybody on the crew including Katherine Hepburn, became extremely ill with dysentery from drinking the water. Everybody that is except for Humphrey Bogart, who only drank whiskey