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TIL that Eli Whitney’s cotton gin is short for “cotton engine”.
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TIL there is a group of genes (HOX) that code for the proper formation of limbs in most animals. When flies have defective HOX genes, instead of antenas, they grow more legs
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TIL A Harvard Study found that a husband's job loss is the number one predictor of divorce
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TIL the average person produces 11,000 gallons (41600 L) of pee in their lifetime, enough to fill up two 16-foot above ground pools two times.
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TIL at 52, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman married 18-year-old Mandy Smith but divorced after a year. Bill’s 30-year-old son then Stephen married Mandy’s mother, age 46. If Bill and Mandy had remained married, Stephen would have been his father’s father-in-law and his own grandpa.
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TIL a flock of starlings is called a murmuration.