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TIL Dolly Parton has a program that will mail your child a free age-appropriate book once a month from birth to age 5. No obligation, no catch, she just wants to make sure that every child has books.

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oBnrR TIL an American lieutenant during World War II, realizing his position was being overrun by enemy troops, called in an artillery barrage on himself. When U.S. troops managed a counterattack later that day they found the lieutenant’s body along with those of about a hundred German soldiers.
4oGR TIL that some autism patients excrete the same toxin in their urine that hallucinogenic toads have on their skin
eoB4 TIL that if you fall into lava you aren’t going to sink in it.
EyN7 TIL, Ming the clam lived to be 507 years old.
jRjX TIL that nudists were early adopters of volleyball and by the 1960s a volleyball court was standard in most nudist clubs.