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TIL Nestle would aggressively market baby formula in developing countries, causing unnecessary death and suffering of infants.

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5V9B9 TIL that 80s child actress Judith Barsi made so much money by 4th grade, her family bought a house in West Hills. She died at age 10 when her father killed the entire family. Her final films, “The Land Before Time” and “All Dogs Go To Heaven,” were released posthumously.
a8vWL TIL: Your Backyard Birds are Living Dinosaurs! Despite their small size and fluffy feathers, birds are the last surviving group of dinosaurs, stemming from the theropod dinosaur lineage.
PYODg TIL that John Lennon was so fed up with people trying to over-analyze Beatles lyrics and trying to find a hidden meaning in them that he started purposefully putting in meaningless nonsense into songs like "the Walrus was Paul" just to confuse them
LNYd TIL: Americans create 250 million tons of trash, and 134 million tons ends up in landfills. By recycling and composting 87 million tons of our garbage, we eliminated more than 183 million metric tons of Co2, which is like getting rid of the annual emissions of 34 million cars.
LkLmP TIL there is a village in the UAE, Nahva, wich is an enclave within an enclave. Oman is surrounding a small piece of the UAE, forming a counter-enclave.