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TIL that babies put anything/everything into their mouths because it’s where their most-developed nerve endings are.

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PYyRG TIL that dental fluoride was discovered due to a chemist investigating the weird staining on the teeth of people living in a small town in Colorado.
j6Eyp TIL that some of the earliest schools in Massachussets and Virginia in the 1640s were desegregated (Black students were taught alongside white students)
v1G8j TIL that Christian Bale, who has a British accent, did all of his promotional interviews for Batman Begins in an American accent because he felt Batman was "such an American character" and he did not want audiences asking "What the hell is going on? Why do we have an English Batman?"
9w7WM TIL the Madison Square Garden company uses facial recognition to keep out enemy lawyers
YdVA TIL in 2009, scientists in Iceland unexpectedly drilled into a magma chamber 2.1 km below ground, creating the world’s first magma enhanced geothermal energy source capable of powering 80,000 homes.