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TIL Babies aren’t really taught to walk by their parents - they will eventually figure out how to do it on their own as it is an innate motor skill. If a parent takes credit for “teaching” their kids how to walk and the child would be still crawling otherwise, they are mistaken.

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4WX5 TIL that Dragon Ball characters Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, Kami, Mr. Popo, Jeice, Recoome, Korin, Burter, Shenlong, Zarbon, Guru, Porunga were all voiced by the same guy
NyQP TIL that after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, 1 member of Congress out of 470 against war. The dissenting vote? The first woman elected to Congress. “As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.” She was mobbed and had to hide in a phone booth until Congressional police came.
GAGM7 TIL of Thomas Higgins, the first person to be posthumously elected as a UK Member of Parliament. He died from a heart attack on election night, after polling had closed, but before the result had been declared.
GAAXN TIL we get the word “tomato” from the Nahuatl people of Mexico.
Lk5Av TIL In 1990 Cesar Millan aka The Dog Whisperer walked for 2 weeks alone in the desert to cross the US/Mexico Border illegally. He had $100 to his name and spoke no English