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Til that my 3 year old could’ve killed me after kicking me in the chest hard with his baby foot

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p1wZ TIL that most languages have a bias against left-handed people. Left is derived from ‘lyft’, meaning weak. In Dutch, 'Link’ means cunning. In German, 'link’ means questionable. In Mandarin, it’s zuô, meaning improper, and in Turkish the word for left is sol, which can mean both 'die’ and 'ill’.
414J TIL the fastest red card ever given in football (soccer) was given 2 seconds into the match to Lee Todd after he muttered “Fuck me, that was loud” when the kickoff whistle blew.
j9nN TIL that a man from Pennsylvania was accidentally credited $92 quadrillion by PayPal and was the richest man in the world for 2 minutes.
grMgL TIL Eastern Whip-poor-wills lay their eggs in phase with the lunar cycle, so that they hatch on average 10 days before a full moon. When the moon is near full, the adults can forage the entire night and capture large quantities of insects to feed to their nestlings.
kakg TIL that in Ethiopia ‘marriage by abduction,’ which is often followed by rape and forced pregnancy accounts for 69% of all the nation’s marriages.