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TIL birth rates in the U.S have dropped more than 20 % since 2007

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GgBQ TIL Chlorine trifluoride is a substance so flammable that an accident resulted in 900 kg burning straight through a foot of concrete and three feet of gravel. Cloth, wood, water, sand, and asbestos all make it burst into flames. The only way to stop it is to wait for it to burn itself out.
6Elom TIL six US states still have alienation of affection laws. A divorced spouse can sue a third party for breaking up a marriage.
p8kap TIL that Adolf Hitler had a nephew named William Patrick Hitler, who was born in the UK in 1911. He tried blackmailing the Fuhrer, and later immigrated to the US in 1939. He was drafted into the USN in 1944, and after the war, lived quietly in Long Island and passed away in 1987.
rRX10 TIL Eric Clapton played the guitar solo on the Beatles classic, “While my guitar gently weeps”
Eg5dp TIL The first standardized rain gauge was invented in 1441 by Korean King Sejong's son, Prince Munjong.