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TIL sometimes a baby can taste what their mom had for lunch

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mx5KR TIL that Cougars are the biggest cat that can purr and meow.
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nlZr TIL a boy named David Reimer had his penis burnt off during circumcision, and he was then sexually reassigned as a female by a psychologist who also forced him and his twin brother to rehearse sexual acts.
xbKk TIL that in 1970 the US Postal Service decided on a strike after a Congressional decision to raise the wages of postal workers by only 4%, at the same time as Congress raised its own pay by 41%