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TIL: That orange-fleshed sweetpotato is good for healthy babies

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N7bV8 TIL that in Taiwan, Father's Day is on August 8th. This was determined by the fact that the eighth (ba) day of the eighth (ba) month makes two "eights" (八八, ba-ba), which sounds similar to the colloquial word for "daddy" (ba-ba，爸爸)
W7GxA TIL: Only members of the genus Homo can touch the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger.
epxM5 TIL That Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) and Delta blues musician Bukka White (BB King's older cousin) were incarcerated together at Parchman Farm, Mississippi from 1937-1939
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