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TIL an American woman was arrested for letting her kids play outside supervised

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D1XKj TIL that the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, Thai, Armenian, Mongolian, Hebrew, and Tibetan writing systems (among others) are all descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
4XBeo TIL that Soviet music bootleggers in the 50s and 60s would take discarded X-Ray film from hospitals and re-purpose them into improvised phonograph records containing banned music. These recordings were called "Rib Music", "Jazz on Bones", or "Roentgenizdat"
5ly9 TIL that Animal House was filmed on campus at University of Oregon only because the dean had previously refused to shoot The Graduate on that same campus, and he regretted that decision so much, he allowed Animal House to be filmed there.
7rY1r TIL that when the exiled Shah of Iran requested entry into the U.S. for medical treatment, Henry Kissinger intervened on his behalf by repeatedly calling President Jimmy Carter. On more than one occasion, Carter hung up his phone in rage in the Oval Office and shouted “Fuck the Shah!”
w5E8 TIL the oldest surviving Union Civil War Veteran lived to see the end of the Korean War