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TIL in 1949, eight observers documented every word and movement of a seven-year-old boy from rural Kansas for a sociological study

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neMwG TIL newly born baby koalas eat their mothers poop.
e4BD TIL: Native Americans serving in the Marine Corps are allowed to use Peyote for religious ceremonies as long as they are not on duty or within 24 hours of being ready to ship out.
d8PK TIL that education in Cuba is free at every level.
6EWKl TIL about the burial of "Shanidar 1," a Neanderthal who lived approximately 45,000 to 35,000 years ago. Despite several injuries and disabilities from early in his life that would have made it impossible to survive on his own, he lived to a relatively old age (40 to 50) with the help of others.
5Y7W9 TIL that JFK's famous "we choose to go to the moon" speech was made at Rice University, and the line immediately prior to "we choose to go to the moon" was "Why does Rice play Texas?" People were still laughing as he started that now-famous section of the speech.