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TIL almost 17 million children in the USA lack reliable daily access to food

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r544 TIL Sacha Bara Cohen (as Borat) stayed in character when confronted by the police (for public masturbation) and they were so frustrated they let him off
b7E9 TIL that L. Ron Hubbard awarded himself his own Ph.D as he himself owned the ‘university’ from which he 'graduated’
64LX TIL that at the end of WWI, Germany had to pay reparations of 132 billion gold marks. The reparations were not fully paid until 2010, marking the official end of the war.
P1bZE TIL about Krystal Surles, a 10-year-old girl who survived getting her throat slit by serial killer Tommy Sells and was able to draw a sketch that allowed Sells to be identified and caught.
loJGV TIL that a man named Ted Jorgensen had abandoned his son at birth. Years later, he got a visit from a biographer walking in his bike shop. The biographer asked him about his son who he had never heard of up until that moment, Jeff Bezos.