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TIL Bill Nye owns several patents, including one for ballet shoes and another for a clear plastic bag filled with water

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wL1wW TIL: In 2018, doctors found that a patient, Kendra Jackson, had a leaky brain for 5 years. After an accident in 2013, she had a daily runny nose for years and suffered headaches. She lost half a pint of brain fluid a day through her nose.
kY0E TIL Hugo Boss was not only a supplier of uniforms to the Nazis, but was the designer of the black uniforms worn by the SS
NXP1e TIL that the word kidnap is relatively recent and originally meant "to steal or carry off children or others in order to provide servants or labourers for the American plantations."
N79yM TIL - All human infants, male and female, are born capable of producing breast milk. In fact, due to left over endocrine and hormone influences of the pregnant mother, some infants of both sexes lactate in their first few days of life. This is colloquially called "Witch's Milk."
oKyL TIL employers in South Korea give their workers a “kimchi bonus” in the fall so they can buy all the ingredients to make their annual supply.