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TIL meconium is the name of a newborn’s first poop

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J16YQ TIL the first Super Bowl halftime show featured jetpacks flying around the stadium, but were originally developed for military use by Bell Aerosystems and funded by the US Army.
N7bjb TIL Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin were all nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, with Hitler being nominated in 1939, Mussolini in 1935 and Stalin in both 1945 & 1948.
WkO1N TIL that Dragon fruit while popular in SE Asia is a cactus native to Mexico
DjQe TIL while researching for the film Castaway, screenwriter William Broyles Jr. chose to strand himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Gulf of California to force himself to search for water and food and obtain his own shelter.
wLjPJ TIL that the little pepper or strawberry attached to a tomato pincushion has a purpose: it’s filled with emery and meant to sharpen your needles and pins.