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

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9mrQ TIL that when Mansa Musa (richest person in history) went through Cairo, Medina and Mecca in order to perform pilgrimage, he distributed so much gold and gifts that it caused super inflation. Prices of goods skyrocketed so much that even after 12 years the markets still didnt fully recover.
9YK0r TIL that George Lucas setup the George Lucas Educational Foundation for donating majority of his wealth towards improving education.
ANNdd TIL blasphemy and swearing are illegal in Michigan
loNpr Today I learned Mikhail Gorbachev did ads for Pizza Hut
VM1yQ TIL The aversion of most predators toward hunting honey badgers has led to the suggestion that the countershaded coats of cheetah cubs evolved in imitation of the honey badger's colouration, which warns off predators.