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TIL Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t properly form until the child reaches 3-5 years of age.

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678l TIL Johnny Knoxville permanently damaged his penis by breaking it doing a backflip on a motorcycle. He has described it as “like a dog’s chew toy” and “like a sock that’s lost its elasticity.”
LkLxm TIL hummingbirds use spider silk to build nests. The unique properties of the silk allow the nest to expand as the young hummingbirds grow.
X0468 TIL Earth’s moon is the closest moon to the sun
XEWL8 TIL of a 2011 study that analyzed the decisions made by a panel of judges who spent several days reviewing parole applications. It turned out that the likelihood of a prisoner getting parole was mostly determined by how hungry the judges were at different times in the day.
jmNn TIL After John Cleese spoke negatively about the town of Palmerston North in New Zealand, recommending it as a good place to commit suicide, the town renamed a compost heap “Mt. Cleese.”