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TIL that babies cry when they are born because they are bruised and sore from the trauma of birth

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b9w5E TIL about a French chemist named Bertrand, who drank 5 grams of arsenic trioxide (a very poisonous substance) mixed with activated charcoal, just to demonstrate the adsorptive properties of activated charcoal and survived.
QJglk TIL of Oskar Gröning, a German soldier who worked at Auschwitz but was able to hide it for 40 years. However, he decided to publish his story after meeting a Holocaust denier, even though he was incriminating himself by doing so.
VM4gp TIL in 1986 Steve Jobs bought Pixar from LucasFilm for $5 million
a8w19 TIL in 2015 the US Forces wanted to update the 'loose lips, sink ships' warning from WW2, Warning against sharing information with others outside the forces. They had to tailor it for the Social Media generation, and came up with: 'loose tweets destroy fleets'.
yQRre TIL US pays Cuba $4,085 a month in rent for "Guantanamo Bay", but Cuba has only once cashed a check and only by mistake