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TIL Danielle Lierow is a girl who was severely neglected since birth, left in a dark room as a toddler, and never learned how to talk, eat, or hold a doll. She was adopted into a loving home in 2007 and in 2014 was 15 years old in high school and able to say “I love you” to her adoptive father.

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AjYo TIL “The Matrix” is based on the philosophy of Jean Baudrillard. However, after watching it he replied: “The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.”
lmga TIL a woman was elected to the US house of representatives in 1916, four years before women won the right to vote nationwide
WRbd TIL Hutton Gibson, father of critically acclaimed actor Mel Gibson, is a Jeopardy champion and Holocaust denier. He also believes in 9/11 conspiracy theories and rejects the Second Vatican Council because it is “a Masonic plot backed by the Jews”.
QJMa9 TIL Seattle was given nearly a billion dollars in the 60s to build a subway system but never did after the voters voted against it.
e0reD TIL that it takes at least eight bees all their life to make one single teaspoonful of honey. Fortunately for us, they usually make more than they need, so we can have some, too.