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TIL A newborn baby abandoned in the forest in Kenya for 2 days was rescued by a stray dog who carried the baby all the way back to her own litter of puppies.

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J11ak TIL parasitoid wasps, which inject their eggs into caterpillars and eat their still-alive hosts from within when they hatch, so disturbed Charles Darwin that it shook his belief in a benevolent and loving God.
grlvL TIL about the South Korean arcade game Boong-Ga Boong-Ga. The object of the game is to score points by spanking or performing kancho, poke the anus, on a model of a human posterior embedded in the game's cabinet. A plastic finger is attached to the machine for players to perform the latter
kWB TIL If you are an AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Sprint or Bell Mobility subscriber, you can report spam texts to your carrier by copying the original message and forwarding it to the number 7726 (SPAM), free of charge.
jAWn TIL that the most severe capital punishment in Ancient China was the “Nine familial exterminations”, which involved executing the offender, his parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, siblings, siblings-in-law, uncles, and uncles’ spouses.
QN9MX TIL some heraldry depict an animal penis called pizzle, and the omission of it was seen as a grave insult. In 1579 the pizzle in the coat of arms of Appenzell in Switzerland was forgotten by a calendar printer of St. Gallen, which brought the two regions to the brink of war.