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TIL that mothers are more likely to abuse their children.

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6bpl TIL The man who found the 5,000 year old corpse Ötzi the Iceman in 1991(Oldest natural European mummy) was also found dead frozen in ice in 2004.
N6rb TIL Orson Wells was only 23yrs old when he gave his famous ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast, and only 26yrs old when he produced, co-authored, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane.
gGaD TIL that Schrödinger did not believe in the possibility of a cat being simultaneously both dead and alive. His thought experiment was meant to criticize the absurdity of the existing view of quantum mechanics.
40Xo TIL Whale Fossils have been found on top of the Andes mountains
yQYgJ TIL that ignorance breeding overconfidence is a scientifically observed phenomenon called the “Dunning–Kruger effect“