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TIL that some farmers in Bangladesh are now raising ducks instead of chicken because ducks can float during floods.

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xjND TIL that the “Switch Witch” (aka the “Santa of October”) is something anti-candy parents are doing on Halloween. A child leaves out their bag of candy and the Switch Witch replaces it with an awesome toy.
GAVL1 Today I learned that the name Operation Bagration was given by Stalin to honor the name of Pyotr Bagration, who was heavily wounded in the Battle of Borodino. Bagration died after a couple of weeks and he was a Georgian as Stalin.
QJMeE TIL Codependency is characterized by sacrificing one’s personal needs in order to try to meet the needs of others and is associated with passivity and feelings of shame, low self-worth, or insecurity
DQp0V TIL Happy hour (discounted alcoholic drinks) has been illegal in Massachusetts since 1984
rjMx TIL that an Israeli peanut snack called bamba, which is eaten at an early age within Israel greatly reduces the chance of the child having peanut allergies, and studies with high risk children showed that eating bamba made child’s chances of contracting an allergy 5 times less than avoiding them.