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TIL breast milk changes composition when the baby is sick.

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kEEm TIL that in 2000,Pope John Paul II was named an “Honorary Harlem Globetrotter”
0LdR TIL that words such as moose, skunk, raccoon, pecan, and squash, all originate from the language of the now-extinct Algonquian tribe, which inhabited what is now Roanoke Island.
ALWo TIL Al Capone was known for sending flowers to rival gang member’s funerals; one funeral he spent over $5000 on flowers.
oEmW TIL an inventor trying to make a sock to prevent trench foot first produced modern water balloons. Having made a latex-coated sock and filling it with water to test for leaks, he found a rip and angrily threw it on his table. Pleased with the splash, he decided to market water balloons for children.
gr6by TIL the RMS Olympic (sister ship to the Titanic) was used as troop transport during WW1 and sank a German submarine