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TIL babies under 1 year should not eat honey. Due to spores of Clostridium botulinum germinating within the intestines, babies could get infant botulism which potentially could be fatal.

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G5Gj TIL American soldier Hugh Thompson stopped the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War by threatening to fire on his own men if they didn’t stop killing innocent Vietnamese civilians for no reason.
4Xo7X TIL of the Deflategate scandal, where American footballer Tom Brady was accused of ordering the footballs to be deflated, resulting in him being suspended for four games.
v1DGR TIL that George Washington ordered the entire Continental Army inoculated against smallpox despite popular resistance to the practice
lo1DB TIL that 7 years after the U.S. acquired of what is today Washington state, "Columbia" was originally given the name of the new territory in 1853. However, Congress changed the name to "Washington", arguing that people would easily be confused with the nation's capital, the District of Columbia.
ZKQD TIL Among the 561 Nobel prize awarded between 1901 and 2013, 2 have been declined. Jean Paul Sartre (litterature) because he would refuse any kind of official honors, and Le Duc Tho (peace) because he thought peace wasn’t yet achieved in his country.