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TIL Babies have about 30,000 taste buds, while adults have only about 10,000

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0d05y TIL of the 'Azolla event', a situation in which a species of floating fern covered the Arctic Ocean ~49 million years ago; scientists suspect the fern grew so aggressively that it removed enough CO2 from the atmosphere to initiate a global ice age
5Yw0n TIL that Jack Black's character in Nacho Libre is loosely based on Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez - a Catholic priest who became the luchador "Fray Tormenta" and used the earnings to support his orphanage.
QJMlp TIL of the “Coffin Torpedo”—a small shotgun secured inside the lid of a coffin to “prevent the unauthorized resurrection of the dead.” The shotgun fired lead balls at whoever pried the lid open and were used as an experimental deterrent to the rising tide of body snatchers in the late 1800s.
oLMA TIL Hollywood father-son duo Sean Connery and Harrison Ford are only 12 years apart in age.
YvGG TIL The CIA ran a study of LSD that lasted over 20 years and ruined many civilian lives