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TIL Peanuts premiered on this day 62 years ago.

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DQwBg TIL that Zambia produces the most emeralds in the world. Between 2016 and 2020, the country produced 129,400 kilograms of emerald gemstones. Emeralds from Zambia have grown in popularity due to their level of clarity, the depth of their color, and their tendency to be stronger than other emeralds
D17mJ TIL about Xennials, a micro-generation described as having had "an analog childhood and a digital adulthood"
rRGM4 TIL of Dennis H. Klatt, a computer scientist who programmed Stephen Hawking's voice box. He tirelessly worked on the code while undergoing treatment for cancer, which eventually took his own voice, and his life. Hawking never changed his voice program, saying, "My friend Dennis' voice is my voice"
ep7MD TIL that owls and eagles hate each other.They will fight and kill each other and this had been going on since 36 million years.
kOPPm TIL there are two birth anomalies - superfecundation (twins with separate fathers) and chimerism (absorbed twins), that if combined, will create a single human with two biological fathers.