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TIL that the face of CPR dolls is based off an unknown French girl who likely committed suicide in the 19th century

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nRXG TIL Double Stuf Oreos are actually made with less than double the creme of a regular Oreo (1.86 times the creme of a regular Oreo)
61am TIL Genetic Research proved most modern Jews trace back to Italy and not the Middle East.
rRNd4 To strain out the nasty stuff we breathe in. It’s like an air filter in your house, says Justin Turner, an otolaryngologist (short, sort of, for otorhinolaryngologist, Greek for ear (oto), nose (rhino), and throat (laryng)) at Stanford University. Nose hairs trap dirt, viruses, bacteria and toxins until we blow them out, sneeze, or swallow.
aWmb TIL that the Wu-Tang Clan released a secret album, of which they only made one copy. It is cased in silver and nickel and sits in a vault in Morocco. It runs $5 million.
yQVbl Let’s ask Betsy Dresser, the senior vice president of research at the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans, who has raised several litters of small African wildcat clones. “Oh yes, the clones are very much wild animals with wild instincts,” she says. “They bite and scratch. You can’t handle them without gloves and nets.”