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TIL that children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of brain activity as soldiers exposed to combat.

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50G8 TIL that in America in 1960, 30% of all brides gave birth within 8.5 months of their wedding
MJKm TIL there is an intentionally difficult to use computer language called INTERCAL. it takes seventeen hours to do what C can do in less than half a second.
9X7B TIL Pink Floyd’s hit album “The Wall” was influenced by a bunch of roudy concert goers who annoyed Rodger Waters so much that he decided to write an album about building a metaphorical wall.
gMG89 TIL that the position of "Commander in Chief, United States Fleet" was formerly given the acronym CINCUS (pronounced "sink us"). This was changed in 1941 after the Pearl Harbor attack.
p87mN TIL of the “Aroma of Tacoma”, a putrid and terrible smelling odor akin to rotten eggs, associated with the city of Tacoma, Washington since the 1940’s.