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TIL that Art Spiegelman, best known for the Pulitzer-winning graphic novel Maus, also created the Garbage Pail Kids line of trading cards

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4X7GJ TIL The Tender Years Doctrine (generally regarded as the age of four and under), presumed in a divorce that the mother should have custody of the child. The law remained in place until the late 20th Century.
dDKAr TIL 'Heart of Glass' was one of the first songs Blondie wrote in '74. They initially sang it as a ballad, then reworked it as a Reggae tune but it never really clicked. Finally, years later, they gave it a disco sound, recorded it on a lark, and it became a massive hit.
oRPV8 TIL that in 1982, a man named Larry Walters attached 45 helium balloons to a lawn chair and flew to 16,000 feet, only intending to fly 10 meters. He landed safely on a power line that broke, causing a 20-minute electricity blackout, and was arrested by the FAA for violating airspace.
eplBE TIL about Abu bakr al-razi. A Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who was among the first to use humoral theory to distinguish one contagious disease from another, and wrote a pioneering book about smallpox and measles providing clinical characterization of the diseases.
d8PgK TIL the "G" in "G-Spot" stands for Gräfenberg, a german gynecologist who studied female sexual physiology.