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TIL giving birth on the back is the least recommended birthing position but is the most used in the US.

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BZyx TIL in 2009 Stephen Colbert won a NASA competition to have a module of the ISS named after him, but NASA opted to name it ‘Tranquility’ instead. They did, however, name a treadmill on the ISS after him. It is called the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (C.O.L.B.E.R.T.)
oRRwW TIL That Olympus Mons the largest mountain in the Solar System is about two and a half times the size of Mount Everest
R7Ab6 TIL actor Daniel von Bargen, who was known for his roles as Mr. Kruger on Seinfeld, Commandant Edwin Spangler on Malcolm in the Middle, and Chief Grady in Super Troopers shot himself in the temple in 2012 in an apparent suicide attempt
E1Mm0 TIL that in most states in America, employers are are not federally required to provide meal breaks of rest breaks to employees
b9V0 TIL the Founding Fathers did not want political parties because they worried they would be competing instead of promoting a greater good.