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TIL that child labor is still legal in the USA agriculture sector

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edy6 TIL a caterpillar turns almost entirely into liquid before rebuilding itself as a butterfly.
b9rlE TIL the Chinese Government claims only ≈200 were killed during the Tiananmen Square protests, though, recent findings indicate over 10,000+ were massacred.
yVrp8 TIL about fire classes (in the USA) which each have specific ways to extinguish them—A (ordinary combustibles), B (flammable liquids/gases), C(electrical fires), D (metals like elemental sodium in water), and K (lipids/fats like kitchen fires).
nl8o TIL that babies pick up on the cadences and rhythms of their mother tongue while in the womb, and you can tell the difference between French, German, and English babies just by their gurgles and cries.
DQxJj TIL Samwise Gamgee from LOTR was adopted by the OG Gomez Adams after Patty Duke couldn't determine who his bio-dad actually was.