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TIL Studies have shown that babies begin to cry silently in the womb at as early as 28 weeks, the findings where stumbled upon while researching the effects of tobacco and cocaine on pregnancy for another purpose.

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rNk6d TIL that in Speed 2 the scene where the ship crashes into the island was made with a non-animated partial boat crashing into the real island, and was the most expensive stunt ever filmed at $25M in 1997.
QNlpX TIL the richest person in China (and 15th globally) is Zhong Shanshan, the founder and chairman of China's largest bottled water company. He is worth about $69 billion USD as of present - a bit more than Mark Zuckerberg.
0d9AL TIL that a depressed teen convinced his friend, using six made-up online characters, to kill him. Totaling over 56,000 lines of text, he told his him that his reward would be money, a job as a British secret service agent and sex with a middle-aged spy.
VM4WZ TIL A 2500-year-old Chinese book called Sun Tzu's The Art of War is required reading for all US Marine Corps officers
PyZ TIL Jamie Foxx was such a good joke teller his second grade teacher used him as a reward- be good and Jamie will perform for us.