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TIL that women on birth control pills blink 32% more often than other women.

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wLnmJ TIL The largest beaver dam on Earth is located in northern Alberta, is visible from space and is over 2,790 feet in length. Experts believe construction began in the 1970s, making it a multi-generational project.
e0yXb TIL that a small but powerful tropical cyclone (called: Typhoon Gay) caused more than 800 fatalities in and around the Gulf of Thailand in November 1989.
QJOJ6 TIL the Titus cut, a female haircut that became popular during the French Revolution, was inspired by the way executioners would cut the hair of people going to the guillotine. A red ribbon could also be worn around the neck to further symbolize the guillotine victims.
epRPk TIL the US Navy named a warship after Harold Holt, an Australian Prime Minister who disappeared while swimming. The ship was eventually used as a training target and sunk in 2002.
5PJk TIL that the first school shooting to happen in the United States was the Enoch Brown school massacre, in which 2 Delaware (Lenape) American Indians broke into a school where they shot and scalped the students and their teacher. 4 others were taken prisoner.