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TIL Chinese parents can now sue their children for not visiting often enough

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ejoD TIL at the age of 17 Bill Hicks’ parents took him to a psychoanalyst, who, at the end of the session, told him “it’s them, not you”.
nwx7 TIL The first Atomic bomb dropped on Japan was assembled while the aircraft was actually in flight, because bombers kept crashing and burning on the runway. It took them 25 minutes to assemble the weapon while in flight.
OoLye TIL there is a province in Belgium called "Luxembourg" that is 70% larger than the actual country of Luxembourg.
ANLod TIL of Cindy James, a Canadian nurse who disappeared on May 25, 1989 and was discovered 2 weeks later. Despite the autopsy stating that she died of a combined drug overdose, she had been reporting harassment from an unknown stalker for 7 years. Her cause of death was changed to an "unknown event."
9YnZp TIL: Knack managed to initially outsell Super Mario 3D World in the UK.