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TIL that when Nebraska first brought in a ‘safe haven law’ allowing the legal abandonment of children at hospitals, teenagers were being dropped off and left, this was due to the legislators forgetting to define the age limit.

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Ep6p TIL that according to a joint study conducted by Northwestern and Princeton Universities, the United States is not a democracy, but is officially an oligarchy.
pYeGZ TIL of the Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, who was falsely convicted of killing 4 children under her care. She spent 6 years in jail before she was exonerated.
5Vyvr TIL According to a 2023 lawsuit filed by Cassie Ventura against Sean Combs, Ventura dated Cudi in or around 2012, resulting in Combs threatening Ventura that he would "blow up [Cudi's] car." Cudi confirmed that soon after this threat, his car had exploded.
MnX8 TIL that when Samuel L. Jackson was a student at Morehouse college he became so upset with the lack of student representation on board of trustees that he held the entire board (including Martin Luther King Sr.) hostage by locking them in a building during a meeting.
jNByn TIL that the people of Ringaskiddy, Ireland have claimed for decades that fumes from a nearby Pfizer factory producing Viagra causes a "Pfizer riser" in both men and dogs. The pharmaceutical has said that this is nothing more than an "amusing" local myth.