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TIL the story behind the book “I love you forever” was originally written as a song for Robert Munsch’s two stillborn babies.

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MeRea TIL A Texan Judge sentenced a woman, who had abused two horses to the point of emaciation and severe illness, to be on a diet of only bread and water for the first 3 days of her 30-day jail sentence. She was also required to have two blown-up photos of the ailing horses in her cell.
9MX7 TIL an Ancient Roman punishment for the crime of parricide (the killing of a parent) was to severely scourge the criminal, sew them into a stout leather bag with a dog, a snake, a rooster, and a monkey, then throw the bag into the river.
5YlQQ TIL of Strewwelpeter a German book to scare kids into being good. Ex. a story about a boy who never cleans himself & is unpopular, one refuses to eat his soup & withers away & dies, a girl plays with matches & burns to death, & 2 boys tease someone w/ dark skin & are then dipped in ink as a lesson
VMZGB TIL that there are polar bear sized pigs that are breed by Chinese farmers
nWVAP TIL Mussolini's daughter, Edda Mussolini, dated the Chinese general and warlord Zhang Xueliang