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TIL that firstborn children outperform their younger siblings on cognitive tests

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PYVrJ TIL The history of animated characters wearing white gloves has ties to caricaturing black people, partially inspired from minstrels who often wore them during shows, as well as jazz which influenced many early 1900's cartoons. It was also practical to help distinguish hands from their black bodies.
Klma TIL, that for every pound of fat gained, you add seven miles of new blood vessels.
rEOx TIL the brain has 2 internal clocks and people with Parkinson’s disease have trouble telling the passage of time.
W7EQA TIL That A generation of scientists at the Solvay Conference, 1927. 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners.
8alK8 TIL WW2 Black Sheep Squadron member Bill Case cheated death by randomly lowering the seat in his cockpit. In battle, a bullet from a Japanese Zero hit his cockpit and bloodied his scalp. If he had been sitting an inch higher, he would be dead. He went on to live another 52 years.