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TIL that giving a newborn baby too much water can make it sick

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8aKgb TIL Quarantine is from Italian 'quaranta giorni', meaning "forty days", used in 14th-15th-century Venetian dialect and designating the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic
7rYLX TIL that Aldous Huxley, the author of ‘Brave New World’ and 'The Doors of Perception,’ requested 100 milligrams of LSD from his wife while on his deathbed. She obliged and he died on the same day as CS Lewis, Anthony Burgess, and JFK.
JY9k1 TIL Sherpa people have a small number of names and children are often called by days of the week. They also give names according to certain virtues. By mistake of the enumerators in Nepal, their nationality was added as a surname. Otherwise, they have no last name.
78g6X TIL that in 2006, the movie Blazing Saddles was found to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress. It has since been preserved in the National Film Registry.
oJlA TIL the world-famous Zildjian musical instrument company, which started in 1623 in Turkey and moved to the US in 1929, is widely recognized as the oldest family owned business in America.