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TIL people from St. Louis like to cut their bagels super weird

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v1d8R TIL that if a pregnant woman has organ damage, the baby in her womb sends stem cells to help repair the organ.
aXMb TIL that while the U.S. was researching nuclear devices, there was a certain sphere of plutonium dubbed the “Demon Core,” as it went supercritical and killed two scientists on two different occasions as they were studying it.
6EnkW TIL about the Bolton Strid. Running through Bolton Abby in Yorkshire, England is a 6-foot wide, seemingly calm stretch of water that has claimed the lives of anyone who ever entered it.
e0xrL TIL in 1916, German spies blew up a munitions depot at Black Tom Island in New Jersey, killing five people. The explosion was registered at 5.5 on the Richter scale—30 times more powerful than the World Trade Center collapse on 9/11. So loud that it shook buildings in five states as far as Maryland.
6lRW TIL that 5 scientists observed 60,000 episodes combined of 73 cows lying down to determine that: (1) the longer the cow has been lying down, the more likely the cow will soon stand up, and (2) once the cow stands up you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again.