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TIL that hospitals give newborns hats to wear to prevent them losing body heat through their head.

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LMxV TIL in 2006, the Indy Car Series switched over to Honda engines and since then, there have been no Indy Car engine failures.
DQmDV TIL of Atsumi Yoshikubo, a Japanese tourist who vanished while solo hiking in Canada's Yellowknife region. Despite her personal and professional achievements, Atsumi was a deeply troubled woman who apparently wandered off into the Canadian wilderness with no intention of being found. She was.
8e17P TIL: Margot Frank, the sister of Anne, also kept a diary but it is presumed to be lost
AQRg TIL James Jameson, heir to Jameson whiskey, explored Africa in 1888, where he bought an 11-year-old girl and gave her to Congolese cannibals to sketch how they ate her
NjN TIL there is a town in Wyoming, USA, with a population of just 1 person (who worked as both a janitor and a mayor) that sold for $900,000 to a Vietnamese buyer after an 11 minute online auction.