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TIL that recurring eyelash lice in children is an indicator of probable child SA.

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VMdxp TIL an ice cube sized block of Aerogel contains as much surface area as half a football field.
j6e5N TIL That Entemann's was forced to change its packages for some products when a dam burst destroying 5000 tons of packaging, and the equipment that made it.
600m TIL that a 14 year old teenager has written a letter to the government explaining how they can save around $400 million on ink by simply changing the font on their documents.
e0gp6 TIL about Bertrand Russel's teapot. If he were to assert, without offering proof, that a teapot, too small to be seen by telescopes, orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, he could not expect anyone to believe him solely because his assertion could not be proven wrong.
eakD TIL that Seth Rogen began working on the script for Super Bad when he was only 13 and finished a draft by age 15. The film began filming 10 years later.