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TIL newborns right out of the womb are strong enough to carry their own weight called the palmar grasp reflex

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5V8d8 TIL about Frank Zeidler, a Socialist Milwaukee Mayor who served three terms (1948-1960) and is still the most recent Socialist Party candidate to be elected mayor of a large American city
0wKO5 TIL The Bellagio fountain loses almost 12m gallons of water per year averaging out to 33,000 gal per day
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8kLb TIL that the same company that produced the Zyclon B gas for Auschwitz also created the anti-graffiti coating for the Holocaust memorial in Berlin