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TIL A study showed that children whose parents placed the children’s pacifiers in their own mouths before giving it to the child were less likely to develop allergies like eczema and asthma later in life.

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yQ70w TIL Humans in the year 2020 are closer in time to a Tyrannosaurus Rex than Tyrannosaurus Rex is to a Stegosaurus. T-Rex lived in the late Cretaceous period ~68 million years ago. Stegosaurus lived in the Late Jurassic period ~155 million years ago.
0dNwy TIL Australian Aboriginal oral traditions accurately describes postglacial sea-level rises dating from more than 7000 years ago. Some tribes can describe islands that no longer exist; and provide their original names.
wLP6P TIL a group of 30 Suffragettes taught themselves jiu-jitsu to defend against assaults from crowds and police.
AO0l TIL that quarantine comes from the Italian word quaranta, meaning 40 because ships coming in had to spend 40 days off shore to prevent latent plague victims from coming in
mvEY TIL that in a US military exercise named Millenium Challenge 2002 - the most expensive war games in history - the general commanding the anti-U.S. team used low-tech methods to ‘kill’ over 20,000 simulated U.S. troops. After this, the military made him stick to a script where the U.S. forces 'won’.