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TIL a young child was separated from his mother, and was consequently adopted by an australian family. He tracked her down as an adult by matching hazy memories with landmarks on Google Earth

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j6wkN TIL that authorship of the Christian poem “Footprints” is contested, is claimed by at least a dozen people, and has been the subject of lawsuits.
mxpmy TIL New Oxford American Dictionary added a fake word, esquivalience, to track plagiarism.
YX6r TIL that since 1977 Nikon every year holds a photomicrography competition. Here are all the winners and honorable mentions!
a8de0 TIL the Dewey Decimal system reserves 999 for history of "extraterrestrial worlds"
djpE TIL: 90% of media in the US is controlled by 6 major news networks known as “The Big Six.”