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TIL that an Israeli peanut snack called bamba, which is eaten at an early age within Israel greatly reduces the chance of the child having peanut allergies, and studies with high risk children showed that eating bamba made child’s chances of contracting an allergy 5 times less than avoiding them.

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Lk7Am TIL the HMAS Melbourne was initially sold for scrapping, however China bought the rights to scrap and instead fully documented and analyzed the designs for their own carrier program. Decommissioned in 1982, reports suggest it was not scrapped until 2002, having been used for training in those years.
nwwG TIL The world’s oceans teem with something like 700,000 to 1 million species, up to two-thirds of which biologists have never named or characterized
gMJZb TIL on 24th September 1929 Jimmy Doolittle performed the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible
NpkE TIL that character Chewbacca was inspired by director George Lucas’ Alaskan Malamute dog. It would often ride “co-pilot” in George’s car and its name was “Indiana”.
rNeKw TIL Rupert Murdoch once owned independent hip-hop label Rawkus Records