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TIL 1 in 5,000 babies are born without an anus opening.

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1mBP TIL that 46 years ago today, a NYPD Officer was shot in the face during a drug raid and the officers officers with him refused to make the call to the dispatcher indicating an officer was shot
Opv4 TIL that teens are more likely to engage in risky behavior when they are in a group than when they are alone, but having just one slightly older adult in the group decreases the risk-taking tendencies.
BlwK TIL that Robert Plant donated money to a radio station that promised to never play “Stairway to Heaven” again
kODMe TIL during a car accident a sodium azide pellet is ignited by an internal car sensor and explodes generating toxic/highly-explosive gas at a 250 mph velocity which undergoes a series of chemical reactions before turning into a non-toxic, stable silica glass... and that's how your airbag is inflated.
Bgykx TIL that some species of moth can jam bat echolocation by producing ultrasonic clicks at a very high rate