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TIL that children who were injured from a fall before the age of nine are less likely to be scared of heights when they get older.

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QNJvk TIL that the US military developed nuclear warheads meant to destroy other incoming nuclear warheads. The small 150 lbs warhead would send a neutron flux that would disable any other incoming warhead. Essentially, they would nuke their airspace to prevent another explosion a thousand times larger.
ewy5 TIL clover lawns stay short, are drought resistant (stay green), resist pet urine, grow in bad soil, need little to no maintenance, and clover is a nitrogen fixer.
EggJV TIL: That yellow fever is named that because the skin turns yellow as the liver shuts down. The Spanish also named the fever after a symptom of the disease: Vomito Negro (Black Vomit)
1argd TIL Saint Francis of Assisi believed that nature itself was the mirror of God. He called all creatures his "brothers" and "sisters", and even preached to the birds.
yQZ8w TIL in 1991, an Australian singer pretended to have been kidnapped in order to boost her flagging career. She’d been missing for two days when she was found tied up in a road, claiming that she had been abducted by a fan and assaulted. Two weeks later she admitted that she’d made it all up.