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TIL that in 2006, a baby girl named Amillia Taylor was born prematurely at just 21 weeks and 6 days—well before the usual threshold of viability. She survived and grew up healthy, baffling medical experts.

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9GWQ TIL the United States Environmental Protection Agency has a ‘Most Wanted’ list. Each person on the list is wanted by the EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division. Included is a CEO of a mining company wanted for dumping arsenic and lead on public lands, currently believed to be hiding in Vancouver.
J1Ap4 TIL that the city with the most roundabouts in the world in terms of percentage of intersections is Carmel, Indiana.
J1mN8 TIL that algae are not plants and are protists (eukaryotes that are not plants, fungi or animals)
4kEvX TIL that white dwarf stars will eventually cool to form black dwarf stars, but none yet exist because the universe is not old enough
xWdg TIL: At a church gathering in 1870, a bishop said, “Man has invented everything that can be invented.” Someone challenged it, “I think man will learn to fly.” Bishop called it Blasphemy, “Flight is reserved for birds and angels”. That bishop was Milton Wright, father of Wilbur and Orville.