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TIL using baby talk with infants has valuable implications for language acquisition. This exaggerated speech style gives babies information about their ambient language, allowing them to break up what they hear into smaller chunks and process the patterns in their language more easily.

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Wk4vB TIL that in 1995 NASA updated an original study by Peter N Witt on the effects of various drugs on spiders and found similar results.
l8M7 TIL there is a Calvin and Hobbes search engine
VBVpp TIL: That Budd Dwyer, a former Treasurer of Pennsylvania, ended his life by committing suicide on live television. Audio of his death was later sampled by Marilyn Manson for his debut single Get Your Gunn.
07v TIL that a fair-skinned person sitting on a beach in June for 15 minutes will produce nearly 20,000 IUs of Vitamin D, which is actually a hormone that increases the body’s production of antimicrobial peptides which directly and rapidly destroy the cell walls of bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
b9vL4 TIL that the Lakota tribe has their own version of the Slenderman legend called “Walking Sam”, who wears a stovepipe hat and tries to make you commit suicide.