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TIL Murray Rothbard believed that parental rights to children should be traded as consumer goods, suggesting the creation of a "flourishing free market in children".

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Bgoar TIL that Pro Wrestler Kevin Sullivan once wrote a storyline, or "Kayfabe", about his wife Nancy (ring name "Woman") leaving him for fellow wrestler Chris Benoit. The storyline would lead to a real-life affair between Chris and Nancy. The resulting marriage tragically ended in murder-suicide in 2007.
XxOR TIL, Prodigy, a first generation dial-up online service from the 1990s, is still in business and has 92% market share in Mexico.
oyB7 TIL that a pig in Australia stole 18 beers from a campsite, got drunk, and then tried to fight a cow.
ADyad TIL 110 years ago Dr Charles Campbell constructed 30 feet high bat roost to fight malaria. Bats that lived in the roost ate the mosquitoes and Mitchell's lake municipality was malaria-free in 4 years.
LQmPZ TIL WWE commentator Sean Michael Coulthard, also known as Michael Cole, worked as a journalist for CBS Radio covering the Waco siege and the Yugoslavian civil war.