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TIL that Orthodox Jews believe that a baby that doesnt live at least 30 days is considered an appendage and doesnt deserve mourning or special burial.

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p860O TIL that Virginia has spent 100 years asking Minnesota for the return of a Confederate Flag captured at the Battle of Gettysburg...and Minnesota keeps saying no.
BrrOx "Glenn Gould was a complicated man. He didn't like to practice; instead, he'd prepare for concerts mentally, running the piece over and over, playing with imaginary fingers. When he was a little baby, it was said that instead of crying, he would hum. He had perfect pitch and could read music before he could read words."
E1rWX TIL On a trip to Nepal, Apollo astronaut Stu Roosa met Nepalese who believe the spirits of their dead reside on the Moon. Roosa could not understand why a few of the local citizens treated him like a god, nor why they were distressed when he told them he saw no one else on the Moon
yVow8 TIL: That after watching males succeed at a series of puzzling tasks, female birds traded their simple-minded beaus for more cognitively competent partners.
4XbM6 TIL that from 1956 to 2008, the world record for the most-attended baseball game was held by Australia's Melbourne Cricket Ground, which hosted a crowd of 114000 for a game between the Australian National Team and a US Armed Services Team