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GAvN7 TIL Infants of high-BMI mothers may eat more enthusiastically, with more sucks per minute. Until age 2 there are no differences between infants of high-BMI (>30) and low-BMI (<20) mothers in terms of size, fatness and growth
OEkY TIL that MIT students found out that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets from Massachusetts’ Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. In 5 years they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.
epNEE TIL 100 years ago the world population was about 1.8B, approximately the population of China+USA today.
16JjO TIL of Dick Roth, a swimmer who was diagnosed with appendicitis shortly before the men’s 400m individual medley in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. He refused an immediate operation and instead swam in the finals, winning a gold medal.
R7nPa TIL that the Tory party in the UK got it's name from the middle Irish word tóraidhe which means outlaw, robber or brigand.