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TIL San Francisco has the lowest percentage of children among the largest cities in the United States — with just 13.4% of inhabitants under 18

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wL9GP TIL if you allow bacteria like E. coli to grow in food, you can cook the E. coli out but you can't cook out all the toxins they leave behind, which make you horribly sick after consumption.
rdVW TIL woodlice (aka rolly-polies or pillbugs) are not insects but rather a kind of terrestrial crustacean
P1l7L TIL despite its depiction in diagrams, the entire asteroid belt has about as much mass as 4 percent of the moon.
E15JX TIL that the Kantō region in Japan is real.
695YX TIL that 8 members of the Little Rock Nine - a group of Black students who were prevented by angry mobs from enrolling in a white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas - are still alive.