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TIL that while there are numerous instances of feral children being found living in close proximity to animals, there are no eyewitness accounts of animals feeding human children. They are kept alive by human caregivers, being abused and neglected

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nZ7d TIL that Andy Kaufman once ended a show at Carnegie Hall by loading the entire audience into 24 buses to take them out for milk and cookies.
bDPp TIL the 1883 eruption on Krakatoa produced the loudest sound ever known it reverberated around the globe 7 times before diminishing. It could be heard 4,000 miles away, and people with in 100 miles had permanent hearing loss.
loomV TIL that actor Joaquin Phoenix had an older brother named River, also an actor, who tragically died of a speedball overdose outside a Hollywood nightclub on Halloween 1993. He was only 23 years old.
xJA0 TIL that Nancy Sinatra (54 at the time) posed for Playboy in the May 1995
D1oAJ TIL A novice lensmaker was the first person to directly observe human sperm cells, by looking at his own under a microscope. He is now considered the father of microbiology.