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TIL breast milk changes composition when the baby is sick.

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BrAyy TIL: In the 1800's James F O'Connell was marooned on Pohnpei Island where he was coerced into getting tattooed head to toe by the locals. When he was eventually rescued, he joined PT Barnum's Circus as "The Tattooed Irishman" and became the world's first tattooed showman
167KX TIL Last invasion of UK failed when French mistook Welsh women in traditional dress for troops
VrjG TIL American Nimitz-class aircraft carriers can cruise continuously at maximum speed for 25 years before needing to be refueled.
nWJwG TIL despite seeming like an old-timely Italian tradition, the Feast of the Seven Fishes started in America and the first known mention of it is in The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1983
b9VoE TIL Japan in WWII launched over 9,000 balloon bombs that were carried across the Pacific Ocean by the jet stream. The bombs killed 6 people, started forest fires, and one traveled as far East as Farmington, Michigan. The balloons were made of paper.