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TIL the BBB is a a "Pay to Play" scam site that will give any business an "A" rating that pays them $425, and an F rating if they don't pay.

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BrQBW TIL that in 2001 a cat was cleared of the smothering death of a baby. Nicola Payne had found the cat lying on her boy's face when she went into his bedroom. She tried frantically to save him, but he was dead. Pathologists found that sudden infant death syndrome --not the cat, was the cause of death.
b9aGp TIL the creator of the sims got the idea for the video game while trying to rebuild his life after a house fire.
jNZdN TIL that the femur can support 30 times the weight of your body; ounce for ounce, it is stronger than steel.
W0N4 TIL an African tribe still wears Victorian clothes, the style of former German occupiers that they’ve made their own
Wk9n8 TIL that Bhutan uses a "Gross National Happiness" index instead of the gross domestic product, because the government thinks that the collective happiness of Bhutan's population is more important than the country's market value