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TIL that babies under the age of 1 year should not eat honey because their gut is not developed enough to stop certain harmful bacteria like Clostridium botulinum from infecting the body

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OoDBR TIL that NeoPets is effectively owned by The Church of Scientology.
xVmZo TIL that between 2000 and 2015, the average global life expectancy increased by five years.
kJARg TIL that before the raid of Osama Bin Laden in 2011, two 1:1 scaled versions of his Pakistani compound were built in the US, for SEALs to practice their raid on. The elevation of these test compounds was also built to be at the same level, to test the affect it would have on the raid helicopters.
d8Zk7 TIL Max Mosley, former head of the FIA, once sued a tabloid for writing "F1 Boss has Sick Nazi Orgy with Five Hookers" claiming that while he did engage in a BDSM orgy set in a German prison, the orgy was not Nazi-themed. He won.
KYGm9 TIL the Chandra X-Ray Telescope captures X-ray photons at a calculated angle, using the same ancient technique as stone-skimming, otherwise the X-rays would pass straight through the mirror.