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TIL breast milk contains sugars which aren’t digestible by human infants, but which serve as food for desirable gut bacteria

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ybxe TIL that Get Smart’s hilarious Don Adams served honorably as a Marine during WWII and fought on Guadalcanal, the only survivor of his platoon. Later, he served as a Drill Instructor. Ooh Rah Mr. Adams on this Memorial Day!
g9rX TIL that Valentines day is the day that Saint Valentine was beheaded for supporting soldiers getting married.
jR1E TIL Ian Fleming and Christopher Lee are cousins
R7GOQ TIL that 100's of years ago scribes drew colorful ¶ ("pilcrows") to mark new paragraphs. They'd leave blank spaces for the ¶'s then switch inks and add them. They would often miss some so readers evolved to interpret a blank space (indent) as the start of a new paragraph. Voila.
R86w TIL When a pregnant woman suffers organ damage (ex: a heart attack), the fetus will send stem cells to repair the damaged organ.