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TIL of Little emperor syndrome. A term given to children in China who have been given excessive attention by parents & grandparents due to the one child policy

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OoL14 TIL Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to travel outside the US on official business. He went to Panama to inspect the ongoing construction of the Panama Canal, arriving there on November 14, 1906.
R7pbj TIL that in 1997 Pope John Paul II had nominated St. Isidore of Seville to be the patron saint of the Internet, a seventh-century theologian and encyclopedist who tried to record everything ever known.
jNvGa TIL that the late Astros player Bob Watson scored the MLB’s 1,000,000th run. The run was sponsored by Tootsie, so Watson was awarded 1,000,000 Tootsie Rolls for his achievement
B6gr TIL A goat was once arrested in Nigeria after vigilantes claimed it was an armed robber who turned himself into a goat with black magic.
9KZr TIL of a Japanese air ace who was shot in the face during a dogfight. Blind in one eye and part paralysed, “he flew upside down to prevent blood from blinding his other eye”, flew 5 hours back to base, made his report and then had surgery without anasthesia.