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TIL September is the most common US birthing month, meaning more parents conceive during Christmas time, not Valentine's Day.

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VM6wQ TIL Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" is sold once every 30 seconds somewhere around the world.
vgoK TIL that Sherlock Holmes was based, in part, on a medical professor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called “Bill”. Bill would look at his patients without their speaking, determine their ethnicity, profession, and make a prediction about their condition based on sight alone.
XQW6 TIL: At its center, a place climatologists call absolute desert, the Atacama is known as the driest place on Earth. There are sterile, intimidating stretches where rain has never been recorded, at least as long as humans have measured it
7y47 TIL that the high five was invented by an openly gay athlete, and was a symbol of gay pride and identification.
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