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TIL that breastfeeding allows a baby to give germs to mothers so that her immune system can respond and can synthesize antibodies for her baby.

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R6A9 TIL a teenager hacked CIA director John Brennan’s email by calling Verizon’s customer support and pretending to be a Verizon technician
WnWN TIL some slang words and phrases commonly used in the UK today originated 100 years ago in the trenches of WWI.
DQYXY TIL: A family of 12 performers, 7 of whom were dwarves, all survived Auschwitz after being separated by Mengele. Several prisoners who survived claimed they believed they were hallucinating when they saw seven well-dressed dwarves passing by.
kja5 TIL that the head of the Nazi Gestapo never got caught.
PynE TIL Earth’s temperatures are currently rising at least 10 times faster than at any time during the past 65 million years.