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TIL about ‘7Up’ — in which UK sociologists interviewed 14 children aged 7 from 1964-2021 every 7 years. Documenting real-life affairs, homelessness, divorce and serendipitous convergences even between subjects in later life ‘episodes’.

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E10mo TIL of Story Musgrave, the most Formally Educated Astronaut, despite being a HS Dropout . He has BAs in Mathmatics, Statistics, and Chemistry; a MBA; a MS in Physiology and Biophysics; a MD (surgery); and a MA in Literature. He's also the only astronaut to have flown on all 5 Space Shuttles.
4RQ6 TIL In 2007, a Bowhead whale was discovered with the head of an explosive harpoon embedded deep under its neck blubber. The projectile was manufactured in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1890.
XQjQ TIL a man created an armored bulldozer in secret, and used it to exact revenge on a town before killing himself. It cost the town $7M in damages
rJyo TIL that if you replaced the sun with a ball of gerbils of equal mass, the Earth would fry because they generate more heat energy than the sun per equivalent amount of mass
eQpE TIL India consumes half the world’s whiskey, but the French drink the most per person at 2.15 liters per person annually.