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TIL about long-time nuclear waste warning messages, including a "landscape of thorns whose shape suggests danger and bodily harm".

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5YJ1P TIL that singer Buffy Sainte-Marie breastfeeding her son Cody on an episode of Sesame Street in 1977 is hailed as the first TV depiction of breastfeeding.
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