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TIL That a 50-year old Zookeeper in China Licked a 3-month old monkey’s anus to prevent it from choking to death on a peanut.

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awXv0 TIL the radiation levels in the US Capital Building are 55 times higher than the permissible levels of radiation exposure allowed by the EPA at the outer-most perimeters of nuclear power plants. Essentially, if the Capitol building were a nuclear facility, it would fail a safety examination.
b9Nl4 TIL about Henry Dunant, a man who was so appalled and disgusted by the injury and death during the battle of Solferino, Dunant was compelled to create a neutral voluntary aid society that would tend to the wounded of both sides of every battle. This organisation later became known as the Red Cross.
5YJ1P TIL that singer Buffy Sainte-Marie breastfeeding her son Cody on an episode of Sesame Street in 1977 is hailed as the first TV depiction of breastfeeding.
PYoYO TIL in 1969 LIFE magazine published a cover story called “The Faces Of The American Dead In Vietnam: One Week’s Toll.” Page after page of images of young men, 242 of them, killed in seven days of fighting the war in Vietnam.
v1yVD TIL the words 'cream' and 'Christ' are cognates; they derive from the same root meaning 'anoint' (rubbing things together with oil both practically and religiously).