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TIL Facebook doesn’t allow breastfeeding photos.

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KxKJ TIL that after a 1946 plane crash, Howard Hughes decided he did not like the design of the hospital bed he was laying in. He called in his engineers and had them design a new bed that would allow someone with severe burns to move freely. It became the prototype for the modern hospital bed.
R5Moj TIL of Ladino, an amalgamation of Hebrew and Old Spanish spoken by some of the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain.
x6O9o TIL The Isles of Scilly, located 45km off the coast of mainland UK, is home to the world's smallest football league. There are only two teams who play each other every Sunday. They also take part in the Lyonesse Cup, where the winner is awarded a 6mm tall cup named the "World's Smallest Cup".
LbO9 TIL that During WWII, two polish doctors saved 8,000 Jews from the Holocaust by faking a typhus epidemic that stopped the Nazis from entering their town.
Wkbj4 TIL that, In 2018 a federal court judge from Michigan struck down ban on Islamic Female Genital mutilation in USA and dropped charges on accused who mutilated at least nine underage girls. Claiming "Congress did not have the right to criminalize the practice of Female Genital Mutilation"