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TIL fortunate son was written because Nixon's daughter had married eisenhower's son and he became deferred from the military hence he was a fortunate one.

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womV8 TIL that there was a fish-eating dinosaur called "Irritator" that lived in Brazil. It got its name because paleontologists were confused and annoyed by how a complete skull of the dinosaur was artificially elongated by a fossil dealer using bone from other parts of the body and car body filler.
J1MgV TIL Babies have about 30,000 taste buds, while adults have only about 10,000
oB6pE TIL a child molester voluntarily castrated himself to get rid of his urges and be freed from prison
4KMb TIL the the first person to ever unlock an iPhone was 17 year old George Hotz, who subsequently traded it for 3 more iPhones and a Nissan 350z.
aeN0 TIL that just a single pound of spider web could form a single strand long enough to stretch around the equator