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TIL: Lemmy of Motorhead was 18 when he got a 15 year old pregnant. The child was adopted

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9A9G TIL in 1974 a man named Philippe Petit snuck into the World Trade Center, strung cable between the towers and proceeded to dance on his tightrope a quarter of a mile in the air with no safety equipment.
69nAX TIL that in the 1950s, Soviet scientists began breeding foxes to study how wolves might have become domesticated. Their experiment eventually produced a lineage of tame animals known as Silver Foxes, which are still bred today.
4kNZg TIL roughly 30 people in the United States are killed by elevators and escalators each year
OVvR TIL Newman’s Own donates all of its profits to charities (over $350 million since 1982) yet still pays taxes.
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