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TIL at age 14 Oprah Winfrey gave birth to a boy who died shortly after

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mxByP TIL about the Qallupilluk – marine creatures that steal children through cracks in the ice. They hum & knock on the ice. Some say they’re lonely, or hungry. An inuit legend used to scare lone children away from approaching cracking, drifting ice.
OnWg TIL that the President only receives, on average, 500 death threats a month.
695ym TIL a village in Kerala, India was renamed Saddam Beach during the Gulf War in solidarity. Many people from there worked in the Gulf.
GY7YQ TIL that former NBA superstar Tim Duncan is an avid fan of Dungeons & Dragons and wanted to be called "Merlin" upon entering the league.
W7Ya8 TIL about MS St. Louis, a refugee ship that left Hamburg in May 1939 carrying a load of passengers, most of them Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. They were subsequently turned away by Cuba, the US, and Canada. The ship was forced to dock at Antwerp, and the passengers divvied up to various countries.