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TIL Candace Newmaker, a 10 yo girl, was killed during a "rebirthing session", during which she was wrapped in a heavy flannel blanket, covered in pillows, and held down forcefully by 4 adults (2 unlicensed "therapists" and 2 "therapeutic foster parents") until she suffocated.

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oBM9L TIL while a grad student, botanist Arthur Galston discovered the use of an acid to encourage the flowering of soybeans, noting that high levels had a defoliant effect. The military later developed this acid into agent orange. Galston became a bioethicist, and his objections led Nixon to ban it.
OolA7 TIL of "A Village Fair with a Church Behind": a 1643 painting by Isack van Ostade owned by Queen Elizabeth II. When conservators cleaned the painting, they discovered that a bush in the foreground had been painted over the original around 1903; they removed the bush which revealed a pooping man.
DQ7pj TIL that the 1998 film “You’ve Got Mail” was originally titled “You Have Mail” - but after a consultant hired by Warner Brothers found out that AOL hadn’t trademarked their iconic "You’ve Got Mail!" greeting, the film’s title was changed to the one we know today.
0wKe1 TIL that David Bowie's performance of Heroes at Berlin in 1987 is considered by some as one of the major incidents that eventually lead to the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
yQy7p TIL after Neil deGrasse Tyson tried to persuade rapper BoB that the Earth isn't flat, the rapper released a diss song against him called "Flatline" in which he expands his views on the Earth being flat.In response, Tyson and his rapper nephew responded with their own diss track titled "Flat to Fact"