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TIL: Only one acorn in 10,000 will become an oak tree

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6EmaX TIL: Babies are born without kneecaps
KYGBw TIL about Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, a Jewish Hungarian-born adventure and convicted con artist who lived as a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British M.P., German politician and spy, Nazi collaborator, and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama.
Z80dG TIL wheelchair athletes with spinal injuries will sometimes intentionally injure themselves on the lower body (e.g. break a toe), causing their bodies to respond by raising blood pressure and enhancing their performance. This practice has been banned as cheating.
jNppN TIL in the UK in 2018 the risk of fatality per motor vehicle mile was about one-tenth that during the 1970s
BWkK TIL that following the deadly 1977 crash of the plane carrying the band Lynyrd Skynyrd into a Mississippi swamp, the survivors sought help at a nearby farmhouse, only to have the farmer who lived there shoot the band’s drummer in the shoulder.