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TIL that eating a tiny bit of mom's poop could give C-section babies an immune ‘primer'

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50JR TIL that after U.S. President George H. W. Bush vomited and fainted at a state event in Japan, the Japanese term “Bushu-suru,” which literally means “to do the Bush thing,” was coined.
jNgEN TIL the widely taught tongue map that different parts of the tongue are responsible for different tastes is a myth.
w8oo TIL that the cast and crew of Borat nearly started a riot during the filming of the rodeo scene where Borat sings the (made up) Kazakhstan national Anthem to the tune of the American national anthem.
6E1vZ TIL in 1972 eight people at a party snorted what they thought was cocaine, but was actually pure LSD, averaging about 50,000 doses per person. All but one became comatose, but made full recoveries in the hospital 12 hours later, with no apparent physical or psychological after effects.
dDKj8 TIL a mannequin in a California funhouse was revealed to be a real body when the arm fell off in 1976. It was the corpse of a man named Elmer McCurdy, an outlaw shot dead by sheriffs 65 years earlier.