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TIL the term casualty does not necessarily mean that a person has died due to an event.

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x0Kg TIL that many popular parenting practices may be linked to reduced brain development in infants. Such practices include “the use of infant formula, the isolation of infants in their own rooms or the belief that responding too quickly to a fussing baby will ‘spoil’ it.”
VlR4 TIL that Steve Jobs was really unhygienic: he thought that by eating only fruit the need to shower was eliminated, so he stopped showering. When he worked for Atari, his boss assigned him the night shift so that he wouldn’t need to interact with other people.
XPjP TIL most “baby carrots” are cut-down carrots that would otherwise be rejected from supermarkets for being too ugly
amYZ TIL that any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size due to gravitational potential energy. In 29 dominoes, the last domino would be as tall as the Empire State Building, irrespective of first domino is so tiny (5 millimeters tall and only 1 millimeter thick).
GAAvG TIL Šćepan Mali became the first and only tsar of Montenegro based on a mere rumor.