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TIL Childlore is the unique culture of children, including rhymes and games, learned and passed among peers. Often unnoticed by adults, it is conservative, unlike evolving adult folklore, and fades with adolescence.

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8aWA8 TIL Coast Guard will NOT attempt to rescue anyone who falls into a specific stretch of water in Romeoville Illinois, Chicago.
BgyDe TIL Canada's "loonie" $1 dollar coin was supposed to show a canoe, but a discount courier was used to save $43.50, and the dies were stolen.
W7XkN TIL that Sojourner Truth, famous for her escape from slavery and her work as an abolitionist, was actually from New York state, and spoke Dutch as her first language.
RxXj TIL there is a Lego secret vault that holds nearly every lego set ever produced.
BD5L TIL that Pee Wee Herman’s father was a WW2 fighter pilot who, along with 4 other pilots and a total of 4 aircrafts, founded the Israeli Air Force and helped win Israel’s independence in 1948.