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TIL that two babies were switched at birth, one family was rich and the other poor, the rich couple’s baby became a truck driver and the poor couple’s baby became a CEO of a company

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E1anW TIL Oklahoma has the highest rate of childhood trauma in the US, measured using the ACE test. The aftereffects of this are seen in levels of incarceration, deaths by heart disease, divorce, and more. An ACE score of just 2/10 can increase future risk of social and physical struggles.
p4OO TIL that on 4 Dec of the Year 292,277,026,596, 64-bit versions of the Unix time stamp will cease to work. This is not anticipated to pose a problem, however, as this is considerably longer than the time it would take the Sun to theoretically expand to a red giant and swallow the earth.
bjOj TIL by using more pressure than found in earth’s core, scientists at Germany’s Bayerisches Geoinstitut made diamond gemstones from peanut butter. Scientist Dan Frost noted that the hydrogen that’s bonded to the peanut butter’s carbon makes the process messier and that the process is slow.
4XyDo TIL Hattie Wyatt Caraway was not only the first woman to serve a full term in the United States Senate, but also the first to be re-elected. She was the first female legislator to cosponsor the Equal Rights Amendment, and her grave is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
kJ4d4 TIL the woman who popularised “gender reveal parties” had multiple miscarriages, and when she finally had a pregnancy which lasted long enough to find out the gender of the baby, decided to throw a party to celebrate. She now regrets it.