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TIL that infants will naturally and automatically (not much muscular control) dance to music - and make themselves happy by doing it.

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BgYd TIL that the Seinfeld episode where Jerry refuses to race by cryptically telling people “I choose not to run” is a play on Calvin Coolidge, who said nearly the same thing when he decided not to run for re-election in 1928.
oBOV7 TIL in 2016, a 14-year-old male masturbated with an entire 60-gram tube of BENGAY® and got salicylate poisoning as the product contains methylsalicylate (which is broken down to salicylic acid in the body) and scrotal skin can absorb certain substances up to 40 times better than other skin regions
W8e8 TIL that African American slaves used songs to deliver encoded messages of underground railroads indicating instructions of where to go.
mxokp TIL An Indian village plants 111 trees every time a girl is born.
vPbx TIL in 1848 an iron rod exploded through the skull of a railroad foreman and landed 80 feet away. He was speaking and walking minutes later. The doctor didn’t believe him until a “teacupful of the brain” fell on the floor. He died 12 years later, after having portraits made of him holding the rod