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TIL that the youngest mother ever was 5 years old.

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wLYXP TIL NASA found an area on Mars which supposedly has sand dunes that look like Morse code. They have dubbed it “Martian Morse Code”
R55M7 TIL after the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, a team of dredges had to work day and night to clear debris from the Columbia River. When they were finished, they’d collected enough material to fill a football field nearly seven miles high.
j6JPX TIL sitting U.S. President Harry Truman went for a 440-foot deep ride on captured German submarine U-2513 in 1946
wpxP TIL The Egyptians, not Julius Caesar, were the fathers of the modern calendar. The Roman calendar was lunar and had 355 days. Egyptians knew it was 365 days because the Nile would peak on the same day each year. Caesar learned this from his affair with Cleopatra and created the Julian calendar.
rRdbd TIL the subtle scar on Tina Fey's face is a result of a stranger slashing her, while she was playing in her front yard, when she was 5 years old