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TIL a father confessed to murdering his 3 year old daughter under a coercive police interrogation. His neighbor was later convicted from DNA evidence.

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GYdeQ TIL that the best-selling Christmas song of all time, White Christmas, was written by a Jew whose own Christmas tradition was visiting the grave of his son who died on Christmas day in 1928 at the age of three weeks old. That son was Irving Berlin, Jr.
4XNeX TIL: 18 Patients with drug-resistant malaria were cured by a not-yet-approved malaria therapy made only from the dried leaves of the Artemisia annua plant. In just five days, all 18 people fully recovered.
R7dYa TIL That the Nazi and "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele's skeleton is used as an educational aid for forensic medicine courses at the University of Sao Paulo's medical school
WkLJL TIL of “Gay Bob”—one of the first homosexual dolls ever made. The anatomically-correct doll came out in the 1978 amid tons of controversy and was stored in a box made to look like a closet. Esquire awarded the toy the “Dubious Achievement Award” and the toy sold remarkably well throughout the year.
VMJPG TIL the Pacific NW is responsible for the majority of hop production in the U.S. with 99% of all production occuring in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. In 2017 Washington State alone produced 75.4% of the total hops in the country, the majority of which was grown in the Yakima Valley region.