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TIL that two stories about small children killing another child were included in the first edition of Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales Collection but were withdrawn in the next edition since they were eventually considered inappropriate

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b600Z TIL that a careful examination of Nestlé’s marketing behaviour shows that Nestlé’s entry into low- and middle-income formula markets caused about 212,000 infant deaths per year among mothers without clean water access at the peak of the Nestlé controversy in 1981
GYyoj TIL: 7,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert and the Arabian desert were actually grassland suitable for pastoral farming
OBd6 TIL that there is a mutation in male fruit flies that make them homosexual
kOYe7 TIL the "Dementors" which were first introduced in "Harry Potter and The Prisoner Of Azkaban" represented JK Rowlings severe depression.
8e1Ob TIL Isaac Newton created the modern color wheel