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TIL that Australia recommends eating around 30 different foods a day to be healthier, live longer and have reduced risk of developing lifestyle illness such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes

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R70b4 TIL in 2013 a dog named Killian saved a baby boy from an abusive babysitter. He alerted his owners by growling and standing between the baby and the sitter whenever she was there. Suspicious, the parents left an iPhone under the sofa recording audio. The sitter was later convicted on what they heard
0nN5 TIL of the state Buddhist monks call “Tukdam” which happens when a monk dies during deep meditation and his body stays uncannily preserved in meditative posture for hundreds of years.
oBvV7 TIL that radio was broadcast live until the late 1940s because of how bad recorded phonograph discs sounded. Prime time shows had to be performed twice in the U.S., once for each coast.
8eyP TIL the oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117
EgMJw TIL Jacob Miller was shot in the head during the Civil War. Left for dead, he regained consciousness hours later and lived for another 54 years