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TIL that babies will instinctively hold their breath underwater until the age of six months.

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p8YjQ TIL that 14% of the US adult population could not read in 2013
pjpb TIL of the steamship Eastland, which, in 1915, capsized while still tied to the dock in Chicago. New safety laws which rushed through Congress after the Titanic sinking mandated so much safety gear installed that the ship was top heavy and rolled over, killing 844 people.
WkA1X TIL almond extract is often commercially made from the inside of peach pits, not almonds at all.
vEbR TIL As a child, Stephen King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event.
ANOD4 TIL an Ottoman cuisine named İmam bayıldı literally means "the imam fainted". The cuisine was named after a tale that a Turkish imam fainted after knowing how much olive oil his wife used to cook an eggplant.