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TIL 1 in 5,000 babies are born without an anus opening.
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TIL General Mills’ Wheaties cereal contain so many metal fragments they could actually be lifted with a magnet
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TIL that the city of Wausau, Wisconsin banned the throwing of snowballs from 1884 up to 2020.
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TIL during the Battle of Mars-la-Tour in the Franco-Prussian War, Von Bredow led 800 cavalry against a French force 4 times in size. He declared "it will cost what it will." The charge succeeded, but only 420 men returned out of 800. It was the last major European cavalry charge in history.
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TIL That the Hadza tribe from Tanzania find honey by whistling a special tune to a "honeyguide" bird that then leads them to a nearby bee hive.
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TIL that The Smokey Bear Effect is a bad thing, decades of preventing small fires leads to the accumulation of undergrowth, that fuels massive superfires today