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TIL ‘Munchausen by proxy’ is a label specifically for mothers who seek sympathy by making their children ill.

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lo4bA TIL of Henry Lucas, who in 1663 founded a professorship of mathematics at Cambridge University. The "Lucasian Professor of Mathematics" has become hugely prestigious, with holders including Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking.
MexZB TIL the alignment of planets in our solar system that allowed us to launch Voyager spacecraft out of our solar system at the speed it went only happens once every 176 years
LkrM0 TIL the first use of Biological Warfare, and the cause of one of the first recorded epidemics ever, occured when the Hittite Empire released rams infected with Tularemia into enemy lands over 3500 years ago.
oBVMo TIL In 2018, the world's most expensive bottle of vodka (worth $1.3 million USD) was stolen and found empty on a construction site.
XEJ5E TIL that the morning singing of birds is called the "dawn chorus". It is mostly male birds that sing in the morning and it is theorized that they do so to show fitness, the air and low ambient noise allows for clearer signal, and it's too dark to really do anything else.