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TIL In 1847 Choctaw Indians sent $170 to Ireland as famine relief

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4nvX TIL, Sunday’s Breaking Bad was dedicated to a teen who died of cancer. He turned down the chance to hear how it all ends saying he “wanted to find out along with everyone else”.
j6dXE TIL of Dr. Benjamin Spock, a pediatrician whose 1946 book "Baby and Child Care" is one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century. His then unconventional advice to parents to show affection to their children and to see them as individuals revolutionized how parents raised their children.
p8LAG TIL in 1911, inmates on death row played baseball for their lives. If they won, execution was delayed. If they lost, their execution went ahead as scheduled.
jlWN TIL Lin Zhao’s parents learnt their daughter was executed on 1968 only after a Communist Party official asked them to pay the five-cent fee for the bullet used to kill her
74bM TIL of Freddie Oversteegen, a girl with the Dutch Resistance who would seduce nazis and lead them into the woods where they would be killed