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TIL about Ruth Harkness, the chain-smoking American heiress who brought the first live panda out of China

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9YE07 TIL John Graves (1572) wished burial within 20 feet of his church; his tombstone is now a in parking lot
Lx4v TIL in Japan they have lactation bars offering human breast milk. 2,000 (18$ USD) yen gets you a shot and 5,000 (46$ USD) yen gets you the nipple.
yboX TIL in a study to improve hospital design for children, researchers polled 250 children regarding their opinions on clowns; every single one reported disliking or fearing them.
mx86p TIL of Ken Rex McElroy, who was shot to death in plain view of 30-45 people in a small town. No one called an ambulance. Elroy was such a bully that even 30 years later no one will say who did it.
X0rk TIL an 18th Century pirate named Calico Jack stole a ship and ran off with another man’s wife, Anne Bonny, who dressed like a man to hide her gender. Among Jack’s crew was another woman dressed as a man, Mary Read. When captured and facing execution, both women were pregnant and were thus pardoned.