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TIL there's special blood for babies

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kOWJ7 TIL that the “BASE" in BASE jumping is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: building, antenna, span, and earth
Qpda TIL “Gringo” did not originate in Mexico to describe Americans, but in Spain in the 1700’s to describe foreigners whose speech was incomprehensible. Gringo likely came from the word “griego” meaning Greek, which in Spanish was used in the same way as English, “it’s Greek to me” (hablar in griego).
DLle TIL that Jack Black’s parents are both rocket scientists.
jNkrj TIL about behavioral sink, an experiment with rats in a technically perfect and utopian situation; the behavior of rats in an overcrowding place lead to cannibalism, alienation and rabid violence, amongst other perversion, simply because there were more mice than social roles.
M7AOA TIL that people who live in cities are 30% more likely to be depressed than people living in rural areas