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TIL Puppies are born blind, deaf, toothless, and unable to regulate body heat. They don’t start developing these until 2-4 weeks after being born.

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Bg6Vy TIL over half of the states in the US impose a strict mandatory retirement age on their state’s Supreme Court, with age 70 being required for 18 of them
QxeX TIL that in 1842, Honore De Balzac, a famous writer, tried to publicize his play by starting a rumor that opening night was sold out. The play opened to an empty house.
wLw07 TIL viagra was invented on accident: “It was originally developed as a medication used for lowering high blood pressure. It failed to acheive this purpose and was discontinued. When test subjects were asked to return their unused medicine, however, they all refused”
bNl7 TIL due to a lack of family and friends in attendance at his funeral, the pallbearer’s of Lee Harvey Oswald’s casket were reporters.
8DVL TIL there are islands in the Pacific that have been inhabited by the Mutineers of the HMS Bounty, the Tahitians they brought with them, and their descendants for over 200 years.