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TIL infants initially defecate in diapers because they have not yet been taught how to use the toilet.

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d8EO8 TIL 15 years after having been shot and left for dead during a forced march to a concentration camp, physicist Bruno Touschek initiated and drove the development of AdA -- the world's first antimatter storage ring.
GYykJ TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was given top billing and paid $25 million dollars for his role of Mr. Freeze, equating to roughly $1 million dollars for each of his 27 ice puns in the film.
1aVKD TIL that fluoride taken in from drinking water becomes a component of saliva, which helps oral health by helping to rebuild weakened tooth enamel.
Z8A1G TIL that red grapefruits were created by growing grapefruit trees next to radioactive material, mutating their DNA to make them more desirable
v1BP4 TIL about the Bhopal Disaster, a chemical leak from a pesticide plant in India that killed and injured more people than Chernobyl.