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TIL: For mother’s day in Serbia the Children “Sneak into their mum’s room in the morning to tie her feet with ribbons so that she can’t get up out of bed”…

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oRKAr TIL that there's a small village in Japan called Nagoro, where a woman named Ayano Tsukimi has created over 350 life-sized dolls to replace the declining population. The dolls outnumber the living residents by 10 to 1.
77kb TIL that during the first artificial insemination, a woman was chloroformed in front of six medical students and the “most attractive” student gave his semen. The woman was not told that her husband wasn’t the father until the child was 25, and the medical student published an article.
9MgG TIL in 1969, the U.S. under Nixon went into nuclear readiness alert and flew nuclear armed fighter jets along Soviet airspace for three days. This was part of Nixon’s Madman Theory, in which he tried to give off the image that he was unstable to make sure the Soviets would never provoke the U.S.
xpZo TIL That the person who came up with the Big Bang Theory was a Catholic priest named Georges Lemaître.
D5pg TIL that Charlie Chaplin put up the 2013 equivalent of 25million USD of his own money to finance his anti-Nazi file The Great Dictator while the US was still at peace with Nazi Germany.