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TIL about practice babies. In the early to mid 1900s, orphaned babies were lent out to college home economics programs where they were taken care of entirely by groups of students in order to learn child-rearing skills.

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eY9g TIL that a biologist named Justin O. Schmidt was stung by 83 different insects and rated the pain caused by their sting on a scale of 1 to 4.
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5g1P TIL a bill in 2007 changed the law so that the President of the United States will now be able to take total control of a state’s National Guard units without the governor’s consent. In a letter to Congress, all 50 governors opposed the increase in power of the President.
GYMjj TIL that Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atom bomb" and the head of the Manhattan Project, once tried to poison his advisor for making him do experimental work instead of theoretical physics.
ADKvB TIL that Brazil has the Biggest number of Italians, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Sub-Saharan African and Lebanese (outside of those countries) people (descendants) in the world! Besides that, a Gigantic (in the millions) of German, Syrians, Polish, Spaniards, Ukrainians and Turkish people!