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TIL Pandas have pissing contests by peeing upside down while doing handstands.

VB154 TIL: NY, NJ, MA, and MN addresses paranormal activity in their real estate disclosure laws. In NJ, a seller must inform the buyer that their property is haunted if asked and in New York, a home sale is rescinded if the seller creates and perpetuates a reputation that the home is haunted.
QNR9e TIL The 1st episode of All in the Family began by warning "The program you are about to see is All in the Family. It seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices, and concerns. By making them a source of laughter, we hope to show, in a mature fashion, just how absurd they are.”
npZ7 TIL if you buy a Toshiba laptop and it breaks, UPS will send you a return-shipping box, repair the laptop and ship the laptop back to you. Everyone who handles your laptop works for UPS, not Toshiba.
E19m7 TIL: The default location of an IP address in the USA, if no more granular location information is available, is mapped to a farm in Kansas. Because of this, the owners have been constantly harassed and visited by the FBI, IRS and others who have been scammed by someone with a US IP address
jNAaQ TIL that Steve Carter, 35, found out he was a missing child. Carter, who was adopted at 4, found an age-progression image through missing children. He discovered he'd been kidnapped by his birth mother and placed in an orphanage. His biological father reported him missing over three decades earlier.