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RYn4 TIL baby spit backwashes into the breast during breastfeeding so the mother’s body can adjust the breastmilk composition based on the baby’s health
nWEXY TIL that Adolph Hitler's half nephew - William Patrick Hitler - served in the american navy during WW2, fighting against his uncle and receiving a purple heart. He only changed his name to William Patrick Stuart-Houston after the war.
lo5Qa TIL Bayard Rustin was told to move to the back of a bus, but stopped when a white child reached out to grab his tie, before being scolded by its mom. He thought, “I owe it to that child, that it should be educated to know that blacks do not want to sit in the back”. He was then arrested and beaten.
Zr7G TIL about Marcus Garvey, a political leader who died from a stroke after reading an obituary of himself that was mistakenly published in a newspaper
MG6A TIL the fuzzy bit on a boom microphone is actually called a “Dead Cat.”