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TIL that a human who eats feces may suffer from a tumor.

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VMoVB TIL French author Gerard de Nerval would walk a lobster through Paris to highlight the absurdity of pet ownership.
P1EnL TIL that bananas can be used as a scale for radiation doses
YlXP TIL the Statue of Liberty’s hand sat in a New York park for 6 years before being installed. While the French paid for the statue, the US didn’t want to pay for the pedestal, so to raise money, photographs were sold to tourists and for 50 cents, you could climb a ladder to the top of the torch.
M7Vd0 TIL California almost got its first Major League Baseball team in 1941, 15 years before the Dodgers and Giants moved
d8Yl7 TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson had no name for the first three months of his life. He was simply called "the baby" because his parents could not agree on a name, but one morning his mother refused to make breakfast until a name was agreed on. He was then named Lyndon Baines Johnson after a lawyer.