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TIL about Safe Haven Boxes. An anonymous drop off for newborns, preventing them from abandonment.

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pYKdG TIL that the Granite Railway is popularly termed the first commercial railroad in the United States.
rAny TIL that resumes with White sounding names (e.g. Emily and Brendan) elicit 50% more callbacks than resumes with African American sounding names (e.g. Lakisha and Jamal). This discrimination persists even when resumes with African American names list more credentials than resumes with White names.
Wwdd TIL that abstract artist Ad Reinhardt painted only giant black squares for the last 10 years of his life, hiding within each painting subtle red/blue shapes only perceptible to the patient viewer who’s let his/her eyes adjust to the stark color palette.
9w7ap TIL that astronomers regularly observe mysterious lights and temporary changes in structure on the surface of the moon. "Transient lunar phenomena" have not been fully explained, and are almost never observed at two different places on Earth at the same time.
wV08 TIL the ageing process stops around 90. The death rate stops increasing after this age, so a 100-year-old doesn’t have a greater chance of dying than 93 years old.