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TIL Newborns’ crying is influenced by native language. In a 2009 study, French infants were shown to cry with a “rising melody contour” while German infants cried with “falling contours”.

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vP6Y4 TIL the Temple of the Tooth of Kandy hosts a relic of the Buddha. The temple has sustained damage from two bombings, first in 1989 by a Sri Lankan militant organization who was intent on capturing the relic, and again in 1998 by a different Sri Lankan militant organization
p8QrZ TIL The life expectancy for an 80-year-old ranges from 8 to 10 years in high-income countries but is only 4,5 years for 90-year-olds. For nonagenarians being able to rise from a chair without using hands, the average remaining lifespan was 1.6 to 1.7 times as high as that for men and women
awpjy TIL while high on substances and during a meeting with a CBS exec in Germany, Ozzy Osbourne performed a Nazi goose-step on the executive's table before dipping his testicles in the executive's wine and then urinating in it. He only came to find out what he had done later by Sharon Osbourne.
epKdD TIL In ancient Greece, men weren't allowed to become midwives because it was required by law one had to have given birth themselves to qualify as one.
kegW TIL that the Tardigrade (AKA the water bear) is a tiny organism that is pretty much immortal. It goes into some sort of cryo sleep to protect itself from extreme temperatures, radiation,…dont need any water and have survived a spacewalk.