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TIL that babies have a reasting heart rate of 100 to 160 BPM

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gMlEW TIL that during China's one child policy, 324 million Chinese women were pressured into being surgically fitted with contraceptive devices and 108 million were sterilized
R5BBw TIL about “parasite singles,” a Japanese term for unmarried adults living with parents into their 30s for comfort. This trend contributes to delayed marriage and low birth rates. Similar terms exist globally, like Italy’s “bamboccioni” (“big spoiled babies”) or Brazil’s “Paitrocínio.”
16LDO TIL that individual human eyelashes are naturally shed and replaced on a cycle of about 90 days.
xV850 TIL that after Part 1 of "Who Shot Mr. Burns" aired, someone on Usenet correctly guessed the identity of Mr. Burns' killer the same night. However, the producers were unable to contact this person after Part 2 aired, because the person used a college email address that was defunct by that time.
Vak8 TIL the sudden (seemingly overnight) onset of white hair due to stress is known as “Marie Antoinette Syndrome”, named after the ill-fated queen whose hair turned white the night before her walk to the guillotine