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TIL: that babies born through C-section have markedly different bacterial microbiota profiles than babies born through vaginal births.

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ekXJ TIL of the cobra effect, in which unintended consequences make the problem worse. The anecdote goes that the British had a bounty on cobras in India which led to Indians breeding cobras.
PlLG TIL that the Grateful Dead wrote a letter to the Nixon Administration in 1974 offering advice on how to resolve the Watergate scandal. Their solution: “chrome the entire White House.”
0dk4p TIL The way a survey is conducted can skew the results. However, there are still a lot of people that think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
ePQ6 TIL that the only way to get hold of industrial musician Loke Rahbek’s album ‘The Wild Palmsthat’ is to send nudes to his email.
n1Ar TIL in their latest film ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ stop motion animation studio LAIKA used 3d printing for the Kubo character giving him 11,007 unique mouth expressions and 4,429 brow expressions, allowing for over 48 million possible facial expressions.