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TIL that people with hypermobility carry a gene that makes them much more likely to have children with autism.

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m1j1x TIL that the “eternal flame” at the JFK memorial was accidentally doused 15 days after it was lit in 1963 by kids pouring Holy water on it. It was extinguished one other time in 1967 when the transformer powering the spark igniter was flooded and shorted out during a rain storm.
0wxJM TIL Helen Keller was a co-founder of the ACLU.
J1QGm TIL: The (in)famous problem of most scientific studies being irreproducible has its own research field since around the 2010s when the Replication Crisis became more and more noticed
OoG5L TIL David Schwimmer (Ross from Friends) and Stephen Colbert (US Talk-Show host) were in the same improv group at Northwestern University called "The No-Fun Mud Piranhas".
KYgZQ TIL the first publicly transmitted live trans-Atlantic program was broadcast via the Telstar satellite on July 23, 1962, at 3:00 pm EDT with Walter Cronkite as one of the main presenters in the multinational broadcast that included the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower.