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TIL that the GRAMMY award winning song “A Boy Named Sue” performed by Johnny Cash, was written by “The Giving Tree” and “Where the Sidewalk Ends” author, Shel Silverstein.

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bKo9 TIL That while the United States has no legally mandated paid parental leave, Lithuanian women get 1 year at 100% pay or 2 years at 70% for the first year and 40% pay for the second. Men get at least one month off for each child.
nWmAB TIL the Cadillac Automobile Company was founded by Henry Ford
dD7nK TIL that british climber Alan Hinkes had to be air rescued from Nanga Parbat in 1997 when flour from a burnt chapati (a type of flatbread) got up his nose, making him sneeze so violently that he prolapsed a disc. He waited 10 days in agony before being rescued and is since known as the "chapati man"
v1VMr TIL before the word "blooper" was coined, an out-take was called a "boner" (meaning a boneheaded mistake)
xVJy7 TIL The last two remnants of the virus known to cause smallpox, which are kept in tightly controlled government laboratories in the United States and Russia. In 2013, cloned variola major (smallpox) DNA fragments were found in a South African laboratory.