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TIL that Fecal transplant actually exist.

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P17AE TIL that the "City" of "Rancho Cucamonga" in the US State of California; is believed to be named after a ~historically "local" Native American term/phrase which implied the designation of; a "Sandy Place", a "Place of Many Springs", or, of, "The Place of the Light over the Mountain".
dD6rB TIL the UN & Survival International estimate that 100-200 uncontacted tribes (up to 10,000 individuals total) currently exist in the world. A majority of these live in South America with Brazil & National Geographic estimating that between 77-84 tribes reside in northern Brazil alone.
yQg08 TIL that in 1964, Isaac Asimov speculated that by 2014, cars with "robot-brains" would drive us to our destinations without human assistance. Though he did predict the advent of the autonomous car, his belief that it would hover two feet above the ground failed to materialize.
9YoDQ TIL Nebraska passed a "Safe Haven Law" to ostensibly allow infants to be abandoned at certain locations without abandonment charges. However, it had no age cap, so people would abandon teenagers and older kids.
woNL1 TIL although he popularized the term “Second World War” throughout 1941, by 1942 FDR pushed for a different name for the war, and asked the public for ideas. He himself preferred the name “The Survival War.”