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TIL you can tell if a baby is self-aware by drawing a red dot on his/her forehead in front of a mirror

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b1ya TIL that in 2007, Quebec police sent provocateurs disguised as demonstrators to a protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello Quebec to incite a riot and justify dispersing the otherwise legal and constitutionally protected peaceful assembly.
mr4O TIL that a Mentally Ill man shot himself in the head as a suicide attempt. The bullet cured his disorder and he became a Straight-A college student.
l7QJ5 TIL that in 1656, Swedish maid Karin Svensdotter claimed she had seven children with the King of the Fairies, who took them to his realm. Declared bewitched by Satan, her church was told to pray for her. After her family gave her a silver cross, the faerie man reportedly stopped visiting.
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ADNXo Of all the bodies in our solar system, the sun is probably the one we want to give the widest berth. It gushes radiation, and even though its surface is the coolest part of the star, it burns at about 9,940°F, hot enough to incinerate just about any material. As such, there are no plans to send a manned mission in its direction anytime soon (Mars is much more interesting, anyway), but it can't hurt to figure out at what distance a person would want to turn back. You can get surprisingly close.