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TIL there are only two elected heads of state who have given birth while in office. The first was Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 1990, and the second was New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in 2018. Both gave birth to a girl at both gave birth at the age of 37.

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Bg7me TIL in 2011, the Kellogg's brand decided to add Vitamin D to all of its cereals in the UK due to the fact that 1 in 5 people in the UK were deficient in Vitamin D. A study in 2021 showed that 1 in 6 adults in the UK have low levels of vitamin D in their blood
mx05P TIL in 1518 a "dancing plague" broke out in Strasbourg. Dozens of people started dancing for no apparent reason, some to the point of exhaustion and death. Some historians have attributed the plague to the accidental consumption of a fungus that contains a compound structurally similar to LSD.