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TIL that babies don’t have knee caps and they don’t fully develop until around 10 years

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yV7ra TIL about Daeseong-Dong, a South Korean village located in the DMZ. Due to the many dangers and restrictions on living there, residents of the village are exempt from compulsory military service.
b9nGp TIL the earliest known use of "y'all" was from the English scholar William Lisle in 1631: "The captive men of strength I gave to you, the weaker sold; and this y’all know is true"
LkwVZ TIL That the domesticated hamsters we now call pets are all descended from one “Adam and Eve” like pair captured in Aleppo, Syria in 1930.
yPVJ TIL that Kathryn Beaumont at 13 voiced Alice in “Alice in Wonderland” and did so again for “Kingdom Hearts” at age 64.
PoVG TIL Joyce Brothers became famous in the 1950’s for becoming the first woman to win the game show The $64,000 Question, despite the fact that the show’s producers did not want her to win and deliberately gave her questions perceived to be beyond her ability, which she answered correctly anyway