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R5rlw TIL about Molly Bears - One woman’s mission to help grieving mothers after miscarriages one bear at a time.
MedZ7 TIL about the plunge for distance, a short-lived olympic swim event where competitors jumped from the edge of the pool and floated motionless as far as possible. It was criticized as "not an athletic event at all" since competitors "merely throw themselves heavily into the water and float along".
6Bx8 TIL in 1992 29,000 “bath toys” fell off a container ship near the coast of Alaska. Since then the yellow duckies have been washing up in places such as Scotland, Japan, Maine and the Arctic.
gWMD TIL In Kansas, if a woman commits rape, and becomes pregnant because of it, she can sue the victim for child support
vgn4 TIL the music in the compulsory anti-piracy ad on DVDs was illegally used