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TIL infants under one year old should not be fed honey

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GYY6Q To prevent injury, make sure to stretch.
EgEoW TIL that Ransom E. Olds created the first mass-produced car, the Oldsmobile Curved Dash. After being forced out of the company, he founded another company based on his initials, REO. They created a car that was the ancestor of the pickup truck, called the Speed Wagon.
8arY8 TIL the record-holder as the USSR's most productive and competent worker had his name misspelled in the state newspaper. The bureaucracy officially changed his name to match rather than admit their mistake.
AN7Rx TIL that 80% of animals found in Madagascar exist nowhere else on earth
gM87b TIL From mid-1700s til 1970s, countries & individual cities had "ugly laws" that deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself to public view."