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TIL Babies are not aware their own bodies exist until ~15 months old!

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pYZmQ TIL that the island of Ocracoke, North Carolina was the location where the pirate Blackbeard died on November 1718.
KaDQ TIL because, 30 years after the meltdown, radiation makes farming and forestry too dangerous in the area, Ukraine is working on plans to turn the Chernobyl zone into a massive solar farm.
yQbbv TIL of the General delegation for the French language and languages of France (aka the French Language Police) whose job is to research emerging English words and come up with French equivalents to keep the language alive.
N6Pb TIL William Halsted, a pioneering surgeon from the 19th century who discovered anesthetic properties of cocaine, eventually got addicted to it. He signed himself up in a sanatorium where his addiction was “treated” with morphine. He remained a morphine addict for the rest of his life
bEN TIL that Doctor Who actor John Barrowman almost got the role of Will in Will & Grace but he lost the part because the producers thought he was “too straight”. Barrowman is gay and Eric McCormack, who got the part, is straight.