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TIL of the ringed caecilian. An amphibian whose nestlings use teeth to feed on their mothers outer skin.

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m7ey TIL Red Cross raised half a billion dollars in donations for the Haiti earthquake recovery, but only built 6 houses
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1admV TIL that in the early 1970s, the US and China engaged in "ping-pong diplomacy," in which players from each country would compete with each other at table tennis. This form of diplomacy was a key way of defusing Sino-American tensions, and led to Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing in 1972.
N79le TIL a study of attitudes toward age gap relationships found that they were frowned on, regardless of whether the man or the woman was older, but it was only when the man was older that the relationship was considered unequal.
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