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Today I learned that around 18% of people with Down syndrome are on the autism spectrum.

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n6Bo TIL the United States spends $10,500 per child on education each year, and $88,000 on each child incarcerated.
VMYdp TIL German parents not allowed to name their child Lucifer
J1l74 TIL that during the Vietnam War, the Battle of Hamburger Hill was named by American soldiers who felt the intense, grinding combat was like being “chewed up like hamburger meat.” Fought over Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley, the battle resulted in high casualties after ten days of fierce fighting.
KYvVG TIL Benjamin Franklin is frequently quoted as the author, but he never said "Democracy can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury."; that is a misquote of a scottish monarchist who hated democracy
8a8lX TIL the 15th century Islamic mosaics in Spain's Alhambra palace display a near-perfect understanding of mathematical logic and 16 of 17 types of symmetry identified by modern mathematicians