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TIL breast milk contains substances which aren’t digestible by human infants, but which serve as food for desirable gut bacteria

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OokDL TIL that Kirk Kerkorian, the richest person in Los Angeles, has dispensed more than $200 million and a school, and he has never allowed anything to be named in his honor
v1X1R TIL Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum (from Jack and the Beanstalk) is actually a phrase in Old Gaelic that means “Behold, I see food. It is good to eat and sufficient for my hunger”. So when the Giant sees Jack, he figuratively says “God you look good enough to eat, get in mah belly”.
bo1Z TIL a man planned a roller coaster designed to kill its passengers.
4kV6g TIL That Chinese Checkers is neither a variation on checkers nor did it originate from Asia.
99VB TIL that to attract jaguars to camera traps, field biologists have used the cologne ‘Calvin Klein’s Obssession for Men’. It is believed that the civetone in the cologne resembles a territorial marking.