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TIL when you blush, the lining of your stomach also blushes (becomes more red) too

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woypP TIL In the '80s, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled state governments cannot be held legally responsible for failing to protect a child from abuse or neglect (even if they knew about the risks earlier) in the case of DeShaney v. Winnebago (1989).
WkWxd TIL Gen. George Custer, before the disastrous Battle of Little Bighorn, was warned by his own Native American scouts that the Lakota allied forces vastly outnumbered Custer's men. Custer ignored these warnings believing his well armed forces to be nigh invincible. He was dead within the day.
JYgAm TIL that Jack Black's mom was a famous satellite engineer who worked on the Minuteman Missile and Hubble Space telescope project
oRlKo TIL about Florence Lawrence the "first movie star". She was buried in an unmarked grave after killing herself with ant poison in 1938. Her career never recovered after she was injured in a fire on set in 1915. Universal refused to pay her medical bills.
newPB TIL of Raphael Gray, a hacker who posted stolen data of over 6.5k credit cards, claiming that the law enforcement was too incompetent to stop him. Gray's arrogance annoyed ex-hacker Chris Davis so much that he found Gray's information and informed the FBI about the crime, leading to Gray's arrest.