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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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QJBN6 Today I learned that Carly Simon sang the chorus to ‘Kissing with Confidence’ from 1983 by Will Powers.
nWrLd TIL the average prison wage in the U.S maxes out at 52 cents per hour
DDJe TIL Robert Liston is the only surgeon in history to have performed an operation with a 300% mortality rate, losing his patient to infection, accidentally amputating his assistant’s fingers, who also died of infection, and slashing a spectator who died from shock
K7YR TIL that according to surveys, Americans are becoming more pessimistic about the American Dream, focusing more on holding on to what they have than moving upwards
D10Kp TIL Amur (Siberian) tigers regularly prey on young bears and sub-adult brown bears. Reports of preying on fully grown small female adult Ussuri brown bears by a big male tiger are common as well. Certain tigers have been reported to imitate the calls of Asian black bears to attract them.