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TIL Facebook doesn’t allow breastfeeding photos.

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Zp7GD TIL That pillows were started around 7000 BC in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. You slept on a stone to keep insects from crawling into the holes in your head. This meant they were not originally made for comfort.
Gj7E TIL about the Baghdad Battery. A 2000 year old clay jar with a stopper made of asphalt. Sticking through the asphalt is an iron rod surrounded by a copper cylinder. When filled with vinegar or other electrolytic solution, the jar produces about 1.1 volts.
WkEjN TIL that when Tom Green won a Golden Rasberry Award for "Freddy Got Fingered", he showed up in a white cadillac, rolled out his own red carpet, told the crowd he wanted to win the award, then pulled out and played a harmonica until security dragged him offstage.
bg67 TIL an autistic teenager that is unable to speak is able to communicate by typing, giving the world a new perspective on how autistic people think
NXQ41 TIL that former French general and president Charles de Gaulle’s eldest son, Phillippe de Gaulle, who served in the French Navy during WW2 and eventually rose to the rank of admiral, passad away yesterday at the age of 102.