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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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W7NGL TIL the evolutionary leap from egg laying to placental birth may have been helped by DNA from an ancient retrovirus, which coded for a protein allowing cells around the placenta to fuse, blocking the exchange of maternal-fetal blood and preventing the mother’s immune system from harming the fetus.
86B8 TIL Jay Z, The Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes and DMX went to the same high school and once Jay Z and Busta Rhymes had a rap battle in the lunchroom.
VMPE0 TIL about the Doctors' Riot of 1788, which began after a medical student waved a dissected arm out the window at a boy who's mother had recently died and told him the arm belonged to her.
aw6l9 TIL of 52 Hertz-the loneliest whale on our planet. It roams the world's deepest oceans looking for a mate but it's unable to find one because no other whale is capable of understanding it's 52 Hertz call.
v8A4 TIL in 1968, two boys playing in a deserted and rat-infested tenement found the body of a 31yo drug addict, surrounded by religious pamphlets and empty beer bottles. Not until 19 months later was the body identified as that of child actor Bobby Driscoll, Academy Award winner and voice of Peter Pan