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TIL the Amish are among the fastest-growing populations in the world, with an average of seven children per family.

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16VJP TIL Bernini's David (1624) was innovative because viewers are meant to walk around the statue, traditionally staues were designed with one angle in mind. Additionally the statue extends beyond the plinth and features elements of motion not found outside of paintings.
kJ88E TIL Babies are not aware their own bodies exist until ~15 months old!
kOv84 TIL According to the EPA, a smoke alarm in your house gives you about the same annual radiation dose as living within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant.
kJ1JB Today I Learned of Brainfuck - a deliberately obscure programming language with only eight commands: +-<>[],.
awvmL TIL Albert Anastasia, considered to be one of the deadliest criminals of all time, was sentenced to death for the murder of a longshoreman in 1921. In 1922 he won a retrial on a technicality and went on to become boss of the Gambino Family & Murder Inc. He was responsible for thousands of murders.