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TIL picky eating is caused by genes, neurological issues and breast milk

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rKw0 TIL Green Day payed to host a schools prom at a different location when the school board cancelled it because they didn’t want same sex couples at their prom
EGXP TIL Dubai has a weight-loss contest called ‘Your Child in Gold’ where individual participants win one gram of gold for every one kilogram (~2.2lbs) lost, and double reward for families. The contest is aimed at combating early obesity and raise awareness on the disease.
lera TIL Amelia Earhart wrote a prenup letter to her fiancée, George Putnam, stating she wanted an open marriage and “I shall not hold you to a medieval code of faithfulness to me, nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly”. Also “I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself”.
WwB4 TIL that psychologist B. F. Skinner got pigeons to repeat strange “rituals” by dropping food into their cage at random intervals – the birds associated their actions before the treats with reward, and demonstrated superstitious repetition of those actions
65OW TIL according to Jewish legend, God created the first blacksmith’s tongs as one of his last creations, because mankind needs tongs to make tongs