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TIL that in the U.S., there were animal abuse laws before child abuse laws.

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n8Eb TIL 400 million years ago, there were giant mushrooms as tall as a tree – 26 feet tall and about 3 feet wide
1a4v8 TIL hackers can steal data from your computer even if it’s not connected to the internet by causing the hard disk drive activity indicator LED to blink rapidly.
DBVj TIL a Brazilian girl died due to a 12 minute orgasm.
9YaXp TIL that the first person to use a pacemaker and the doctor who implanted it were born in the same year, with the patient outliving the doctor.
ANkN4 TIL That, until recently, people who spent more than six months in Britain from 1980 to 1997 were unable to donate blood because of an outbreak of "mad cow disease" in the area at that time