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TIL that there is a three-digit-code on every egg carton that indicates the date of packaging, starting with January 1 as 001 and ending with December 31 as 365

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kJWl5 TIL that in Australia, the median maternal age at childbirth reached a 90-year low of 25.4 years in 1971, steadily rising ever since - by 2022, the parental age gap narrowed to its smallest range, dropping below an average 2-year difference, for the first time in half a century.
nd6r TIL the last individual of a species is called an Endling. When it dies, the species is extinct.
R7KaQ TIL Boeing wanted to make air travel 20% faster in 2001 but airlines wanted to save money and bought the Airbus A380 instead.
W7km4 TIL that the Tartaria conspiracy theory claims that pre-modern architecture such as the Egyptian pyramids and Great Wall of China was constructed by a lost empire more technologically advanced than present civilization
Wk1eA TIL, the earliest form of smallpox immunization was used in China in the 1500’s. Doctors would take ground up scabs from people with mild cases of the disease, and blow the material into their nostrils. This lead to a mild version of the disease which had a mortality rate of ~2%.(20-30%if untreated)