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TIL that human infants as young as 14 hours from birth prefer to look at attractive faces rather than unattractive faces

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R7go4 TIL that Mark Hamill was Fire Lord Ozai in the Avatar series
KYMra TIL about Kenneth Pinyan, who died from fatal internal injuries received during anal sex with a stallion
Oogx1 TIL that 56% of people sit when they wipe and 44% of people stand. And when someone is faced with the opposite style wiper they tend to get extremely upset.
5YEEB TIL That The highest wind speed ever recorded occurred on Barrow Island, Australia. On April 10th, 1996, an unmanned weather station measured a 253 mph wind gust during Tropical Cyclone Olivia. This eclipsed the previous record of 231 mph which was set by Mt. Washington on the 12th April 1934.
oBb87 TIL the family-owned Roman Candy Company in New Orleans began selling its gourmet taffy in 1915 at 5 cents a stick and it stayed at that price until 1970. The mule-drawn original wagon can still be seen rolling through the streets of New Orleans and surrounding areas on an almost daily basis.