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TIL Korean parents have begun hiring thugs who protect their children from bullies. These thugs pose as "fake uncles" and intimidate bullies who have been harassing the bullied kid. In some cases, the thugs will visit the bullies’ parents at their workplace and publicly shame them.

yQe4e TIL that Stephen Hillenburg designed the show SpongeBob SquarePants off of a comic he created while studying marine biology to teach kids about creatures that lived in intertidal pools with the main character being “Bob the Sponge”
Z8maB TIL That both India and China have a shortage of women. There is an extra 80 million men between them- due to a sex ratio of 120 men born for every 100 women. It’s estimated that this is due to parents terminating unwanted female pregnancies in order to have more sons.
ADZd7 When a mosquito bites, it pierces your skin and draws blood with the tip of its straw-like mouth, or proboscis. In the process, the mosquito injects some of its own saliva, which contains an anticoagulant that prevents your blood from clotting around the proboscis and trapping the insect. (Only female mosquitoes, which need the nutrients from the blood to produce eggs, bite.)
0oPj TIL Olympians who took home a bronze medal are happier than those that won a silver. Silver medalists are disappointed to have come so close to being the best, bronze medalists are happy just to have made it to the awards podium.
WDBo TIL a recent study just found that 43 percent of sunscreens failed to meet the SPF claim on their labels. The Banana Boat Kids Tear-Free, Sting-Free SPF 50 lotion and CVS Kids Sun Lotion SPF 50 both tested at an SPF 8.