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Til about chana, a family of 180 members(and counting) which holds the record as the 'world's largest existing family'. Its head ziona has 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren.

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GYdME TIL - Over 90% of people who were diagnosed allergic to penicillin as children will lose this allergy over a 10 year period. A test can confirm this and open up more drugs to you for treatment
1aDNV TIL that birds in general and crows (because they’re black to us) have something called Ultraviolet Vision that makes them colorful to each other
KYoEG TIL every fraction of sevenths is the same sequence of recurring numbers but with the decimal point moved. 1/7=0.142857, 2/7=0.285714, 3/7=0.428571 etc.
1AN4 TIL that in 2001, a ten-year-old named Laura Buxton released a balloon with her name and address in the hopes of finding a pen pal. The balloon traveled 140 miles before coming down and was found by an almost-ten-year old also named Laura Buxton. They share a number of other similarities.
vyrL TIL that Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) was the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act when it was introduced in 2001