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TIL after birth, babies who are breast-fed for more than three months are less likely to have obesity as adolescents compared with infants who are breast-fed for less than three months.

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J1Qwk TIL in the USA, "medical aid in dying" is legal in eleven jurisdictions: California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Montana, Maine,New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.
0wgKL TIL the Smithsonian raised $700k on Kickstarter in an effort to conserve the spacesuit that Neil Armstrong wore to walk on the moon, because NASA built it to with a life expectancy of 6 months
YgoZ TIL that Ray Charles, in December 2002, gave 10 of his 12 children each a check for one million dollars at a family luncheon, while the other two could not make it.
rR4Me TIL of Ken Hechtman who as a student at Columbia stole Uranium 238 was expelled. Then proceeded to break into Area 51, Yucca Flat Test Site, and was present at Timothy McVeigh’s execution. After 9/11 he entered Afghanistan illegally and was captured by the Taliban.
PG6g TIL Cows’ farts +burps are more damaging towards the environment since Methane gas is 20x more powerful than CO2. Each cow releases 200-400lbs per yr methane through flatulence. French company Valorex SAS is enforcing farmers to feed cows alfalfa and flax seed to result in 25% less methane release.