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TIL controversy was created in 2011 when a Spanish toy company exported the Breast Milk Baby Doll to the US. The doll, intended to teach girls nurturing skills, came with a halter top which had two sensors that girls would wear to imitate the act of breastfeeding the doll. Some parents were outraged

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j6jbj TIL The summit of Mount Everest is not the farthest point on Earth away from the Earth's center. The summit of Chimborazo, a volcano in Ecuador, holds that designation due to Earth's slight equitorial bulge.
gZe7 TIL that there’s a house in the Adirondack Mountains that’s perfectly designed to survive the end of the world.
9xPp TIL: Monet had surgery on his left eye enabling him to see ultra violet light
pjE8 TIL the CEO and co-founder of Spotify was also CEO of uTorrent
LXrm TIL when Quentin Roosevelt was shot down over France in WW1 the Germans buried him with military honors “because he was a gallant aviator, who died fighting bravely against odds and because he was the son of Colonel Teddy Roosevelt whom they esteemed as one of the greatest Americans”