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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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9YGBQ TIL: That on the same day, July 23rd, 1943, both The United States and Nazi Germany officially submitted requests to their respective aircraft manufacturers for bombers capable of crossing the Atlantic ocean.
woAXY TIL children’s entertainer Stevin John aka Blippi made a video of himself defecating onto a friend while performing the Harlem shake.
v1nG7 TIL dyscalculia, "math dyslexia" (the difficulty to comprehend arithmetic, understand numbers, and perform calculations) affects up to 60% of people with ADD and dyslexia
wYr7 TIL-There are enough restaurants in New York City to eat out every night for 54 years and never visit the same place twice.
4XYJR Fifty years ago today, air stewardess Vesna Vulovic plunged more than 33,000 feet from an exploding airliner, landed in a Czechoslovak mountain range, and survived. Subsequently, it was determined that Vulovic’s fall was the highest that a human has ever sustained without a parachute.