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TIL babies in Nordic countries take naps outside even in freezing weather

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VBYyB TIL: It's estimated that the Kool-Aid Man is 6 feet tall with glass 3.6 inches thick. Without liquid, he'd weigh 5,800 lbs. But when filled with 607.6 gallons of liquid, he weighs in at 11,000 lbs which is roughly the same weight as an elephant. OH YEAHHHH!
x6eMw TIL that famous jazz drummer Art Blakey briefly converted to Islam in the 1940s and led a "turbaned, Qur'an-reading jazz band called the 17 Messengers".
4XP9J TIL of the Association of German National Jews, a Jewish organisation that supported Hitler and the Nazi party until it was declared illegal, dissolved and their founder imprisoned in one of the earliest concentration camps.
ADDyl TIL in November 1783, when he was in Paris, Benjamin Franklin witnessed the flight of one of the first hot-air balloons. As the balloon soared into the air, a spectator asked Franklin what this new invention could be used for. Franklin responded by saying “What good is a new-born baby?”
JYbOB TIL Jimmy Page had an affair with a 14 year old girl who lost her virginity to David Bowie