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TIL that the youngsters of Holocaust survivors are a lot more prone to anxiety due to hormone changes in their parents from the trauma of the Holocaust. Their kids acquired these traits.

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R7Gy7 TIL George C. Parker, the conman who fraudulently "sold" the Brooklyn Bridge multiple times, dodged his first prison sentence by grabbing a sheriff's uniform and walking out of the courthouse
Me8j7 TIL about Danny the Street, a comic book character written by Grant Morrison. It is a genderqueer, sentient street that was a member of Doom Patrol and the Teen Titans.
nekvY TIL "Accuracy" is the ability to hit a target, "Precision" is the ability to achieve the same results over and over. You can be accurate without being precise, and precise without being accurate.
R5px8 TIL The Antennae Galaxies is made up of two galaxies crashing into eachother. Information gained from the Antennae Galaxies has been used to predict what will happen when our galaxy, the Milky Way, crashes into the Andromeda Galaxy.
6mQm TIL the Game of Thrones showrunners/producers began trying to reduce the amount of frequent character and political intrigues during garden walks, because of the South Park parody episode ‘Black Friday’