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TIL White women, especially those older than 35, have the highest rate of triplets or more

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W7VRY TIL that the cotton in your pill bottles should always be thrown out. Once they were used to stop medication from knocking about the bottle and crumbling, but are now coated to avoid this. Today, the cotton ball can only serve as a moisture trap that may compromise your medications/vitamins.
X0w1X TIL about the Curl-crested Aracari, a toucan native to Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru, who appear to have curly “hair.”
0wBoL TIL the armonica which Benjamin Franklin invented in 1761 (and some believed caused madness) owes its disorienting sound due to the way we perceive and locate sound. Above 4khz we use loudness for location. Below 1khz we use phase differences. The armonica (1-4khz) is in a range the brain is unsure.
4ka0J TIL Scroll Lock is actually used by e.g. Excel
y1dX TIL neutral Ireland captured both Allied and German POWs during WWII. Guards carried guns equipped with blanks, prisoners could receive visitors, and sports between German and Allied prisoners took place regularly.