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TIL the Easter Island heads also have bodies.
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TIL Alexander Clark sued and achieved the first successful school desegregation case in Iowa in 1868, 86 years before Brown v. Board of Education.
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TIL the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a whole handbook on allowable defect limits for various foods, such as 400 insect fragments being allowed per 50 grams of ground cinnamon and 4.5 rodent hairs being allowed per 225 grams of noodles.
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TIL: Delayed cord clamping (which really should be normal cord clamping, since immediate cutting is a premature act) offers some massive health benefits to your baby, but many doctors and hospitals are yet to implement delayed cord clamping as standard practice as they just don’t want to wait
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TIL the Southern Elephant Seal holds the record for the deepest dive of any seal species at 2,100 meters (6,890 feet) . Max length 20.2 ft, max weight 8,820 lbs.
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TIL There is a monument in central Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia celebrating the Beatles. It was built because in Mongolian communist times, local people would sit around listening to forbidden western music and discussing the values of freedom and democracy.