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TIL that the American Academy of Pediatrics advises that one should never spank their children or verbally abuse them, ever.

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neXnB TIL that only of the 12 people that walked on the moon, only four are still alive, and are now between 83 and 89 years old. It is likely that in the near future no living person will have walked on the moon.
R5g41 TIL an Oregon man trapped in the snow for 5 days survived by eating Taco Bell hot sauce packets
xLEo TIL that Disney rejected Back to the Future because the mother/son storyline was “not appropriate”
QJM7k TIL Olympic Gold Medals are Actually made of Silver. 1912 was the last Olympics to hand out solid gold medals. Today's gold medals are 92.5% silver.
M7b0W TIL that in 1863, when Harriet Tubman was under the command of Union Colonel James Montgomery, she became the first woman to lead a major military operation in the United States when she and 150 African American Union soldiers rescued more than 700 slaves in the Combahee Ferry Raid in the Civil War.