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TIL about CONPLAN 3551-09, a us military plan to combat a pandemic level outbreak of Influenza.

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7rRMO TIL the non-profit Nurse-Family Partnership, which arranges for registered nurses to make regular home visits to first-time low-income or vulnerable mothers, reduced the number of babies or toddlers hospitalized for accidents by more than half and increased babies' IQ by 5 to 7 points
wLEEo TIL Creator of the American Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis, spent the rest of her life and wealth campaigning against the holiday feeling it became too commercialized and lost the sentiment behind it.
p6GA TIL: The slow loris is a mammal that is both poisonous and venomous. To access its poison, it rubs its hands under glands near its armpits, then applies the poison to its teeth, the bite can put a predator into anaphylactic shock. The mothers also put the poison on babies before leaving to forage.
Qw8k TIL Dr.James Watson, Nobel Prize winner & co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix structure, believed that babies shouldn’t be considered alive until 3 days after birth so that if the baby is sick, disabled, deformed, or deemed otherwise unacceptable, the baby can be legally left to die or euthanized.
PY4rV TIL that there was an English Shepherd in the 1700s that not only learned basic mathematics, but became highly sought after as a tutor, often spending two or three months at a time in the houses of his "pupils"