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TIL that sleeping babies who are dropped from a height will spread eagle to break their fall. This is called the Palmar reflex and is evidence to show that humans were once tree-dwellers.

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XNJX TIL that women who went to Harvard and graduated from there before 1999, weren’t allowed to receive a Harvard degree. They received a “Radcliffe University” degree instead.
W74AB TIL about 'biostimulation' in which exposure to male bulls can cause early onset of puberty in female cows. The presence of a bull, through pheromones and physical interaction can accelerate reproductive maturity in heifers sometimes leading to earlier breeding readiness.
0Vj5 TIL that Simon Beck created giant ‘crop circles’ in the snow by walking for up to 10 hours at a time. Problems in his feet prevented him from running, so he initially started walking in these intricate patterns for the exercise.
d87EB TIL that Americans consume an average of 152 pounds of sugar a year each. If the population of the US is 328,000,000 people, that means that the US consumes 25,000,000 tons of sugar a year on average. This number does not include the amount of sugar exported in products to other countries.
nwVb TIL During a nuclear scare in 1960, the President of France secretly went to the President of the United States and told him “I do not know what Khrushchev is going to do, nor what is going to happen, but whatever he does…. I want you to know that I am with you to the end.”