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TIL Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has been reduced significantly since parents have been putting babies to sleep on their backs only.

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bBE4 TIL of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who was a female Soviet Sniper with over 300 comfirmed kills. She is considered as the most successful female sniper in the world.
a80yo TIL The 1994 movie Tammy and the T-Rex was conceived when the director Stewart Raffill was approached by a man who had a large animatronic T-rex that he was getting rid of. He asked Raffill if he could make a movie about, who agreed, and wrote the story for the movie within a week.
M7KrW TIL that from 1928 to 2016, no Republican won the presidency without Richard Nixon or a Bush on the ticket
BrQZD TIL the reason goats have rectangular shaped pupils rather than rounded pupils is to protect them from predators. This shape gives them a panoramic view of their surroundings to better see predators sneaking up on them.
ADLll TIL that blue pigment does not exist in nature (with the exception of the obrina olivewing butterfly). Everything else, including flowers, is due to some kind of light reflection.