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TIL that a mother kissing her baby allows her to sample the bugs the baby is exposed to, leading to the production of custom antibodies in her breast milk to help the baby fight the bugs

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R7P9l TIL the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) does not believe it is important for students to take calculus in high school, saying “the pump that is pushing more students into more advanced mathematics ever earlier is not just ineffective: It is counter-productive.”
a88Zb TIL about Kendall Myers, the grandson of the first full-time editor of National Geographic (credited w/ having built the magazine into the iconic publication that it is today) and also great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell is serving a life sentence in the U.S.'s only supermax prison for espionage
logDK TIL that Russia has 11 time zones
d8gaZ TIL that US pennies were made of steel in 1943 due to a copper shortage during world war 2.
pxJ8 TIL that since there is no red light 30 ft under the water, blood looks green. If you go even deeper, blood color may change from green to black.