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TIL of Jean Van Landeghem, a Belgian man who has been repeatedly pranked with pizza deliveries for nearly a decade, and he does not know who is sending them.

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YvDW TIL in a part of southern India there is a custom for children to kill their parents when they get too old or if they can’t afford to take care of them.
XNv6 TIL that in 2014 scientists created a mini penguin rover, or “trojan horse” to learn more about emperor penguins.
X0nm6 TIL after Walt Disney, Iain Neil has the 2nd-most Oscar wins with 13 Academy Awards. He developed cinematic innovations like Panavision's Primo Macro Zoom lens, which unlocked creative possibilities for Steven Spielberg and others.
OEv4 TIL For nearly a century, the French have prohibited entry into an area of more than 460 square miles because there is an almost impossible amount of ammunition and dead bodies to recover from the battlefield’s of World War One. The area is called “Zone Rouge”, and much of it is still off limits
M7Je0 TIL Vancouver pioneer ’Gassy’ Jack Deighton’s statue was pulled down by activists in historic Gastown in 2022. Gassy Jack married a 12-year-old Indigenous girl named Xaliya at age 40, who ran away at 15 after giving birth to their son. Xaliya lived to 90 and still has descendants