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TIL that giving a newborn baby water can make the baby sick

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x6ak0 TIL about the Pact of Forgetting: a deal made between both the left and right wing of Spanish politics after the death of Fransisco Franco. It stated that neither side should directly confront the legacy of Francoist rule, in order to allow the country to move on during the transition to democracy.
kORP1 TIL In 1918, an American socialist called Eugene Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for criticizing the government participation in WWI, in prison he ran for president in the 1920 presidential election and managed to get 3.4% in the popular vote.
d8PvQ TIL of William Henry Johnson who was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2015 for fighting off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier while experiencing 21 wounds on May 14, 1918.
W7pxd TIL that J.S. Bach signed some of his compositions by playing the notes B-A-C-H (Bb-A-C-B♮ in German musical nomenclature)
EZX TIL Nuclear power has 4,000 times fewer deaths per watt produced than coal.