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TIL only 4% of people are born on the due date

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4oyX TIL In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
nW0O9 TIL Dr. Benjamin Spock’s best selling childcare book was the first to promote prone sleeping for infants & continued to 9 years after it was shown to increased SIDS prevalence. It’s estimated over 60K infant deaths worldwide can be attributed to harmful prone sleeping recommendation.
9YvwM TIL the combined wealth of the top 8 billionaire is equal to the combined wealth of the world's poorest half(3.6bn people)
GO4N TIL that in the LOTR books Frodo and Sam walked the equivalent distance of Los Angeles CA to Austin TX.
4XQ6R TIL of Richard Russell, an airport ground service worker who stole a 76-seat passenger plane and flew for an hour doing barrel rolls before committing suicide by crash landing, all while talking to ATC