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TIL that by the age of 5, the brain reaches 90% of adult size.

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0V7M TIL that the heated water in the barrel of the Vickers machine gun was sometimes used to make tea for British soldiers during World War I.
8aWmG TIL World's largest printer of Bibles is in China, and is also the only company in China authorized to print Bibles.
N7anQ TIL about a Pennsylvania Dutch food called Hog Maw. Made from a cleaned pig's stomach, traditionally stuffed with cubed potatoes and loose pork sausage. Other ingredients may include cabbage, onions, and spices. It is boiled, baked or roasted until the skin is brown or splits.
QJAVE TIL sewage sludge contains traces of gold, silver and platinum at levels that would be seen as commercially viable by traditional prospectors.
OoD8X TIL: of Wilmer McLean. After the battle of bull run happened on his farm in Manassas, he moved his family to Appomattox courthouse. 3 years later, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant there. He purportedly said ""The war began in my front yard and ended in my front parlor."