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TIL: Doritos are nachos, I'm a fucking idiot

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9wkoM TIL about Ubasute, a mythical practice from Japan, carrying your elderly parent to a mountain, leaving them to die. The film “Ballad of Narayama” explores this
NOKJ TIL: Dogs can smell when humans have low glucose levels (Type I Diabetes) and actually serve as a service animal.
jNy5E TIL of an organization called 'Bikers Against Child Abuse,' a group of bikers who protect victims of child abuse by standing guard at their house and accompany them into court to testify when they are too afraid to face their abuser.
KO5l6 TIL that Elvis Presley suffered from hereditary bowel paralysis and would often soil himself onstage. He also had megacolon and, at his autopsy, was discovered to have been constipated with four months' worth of impacted, clay-like fecal matter.
R7Bn6 TIL While advocating for the legalization of birth control, Ethyl Byrne was the first female to be force fed during her hunger strike in jail after 185 hours without food or water.