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TIL in 2013 a chinese father hired gamers to ‘kill’ his son ingame repeatedly to stop his addiction to gaming.

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W7MY9 TIL chocolate milk does not come from brown cows
LKDr TIL the lyrics to “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” are from the point of view of a girl asking her date to go watch baseball instead of a vaudeville show.
woY TIL Israel kamakawiwo'ole (deceased singer of “Over The Rainbow”) was the 3rd person in Hawaiian history to have the flag at half-staff and his coffin placed inside the state Capitol building in Honolulu after his death; the other two people were politicians.
xnB0 TIL a German woman named Thea Alba became famous in the 1920s because she’s could write 10 different things with all 10 fingers at the same time. She could also write using both hands, both feet, and her mouth simultaneously spelling in different languages.
A1B4 TIL that humans empathetically experience pain when they see someone of the same race experience pain, but not someone of another race. All races felt pain when shown a “violet” person experiencing pain suggesting that lack of empathy for other races is learned and not innate.