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TIL an Anti-Animal-Cruelty Activist infiltrated a Colorado dairy farm, filmed abuse of calves, and turned the footage over to police. The Activist was then charged by police with animal cruelty for not reporting the abuses fast enough.

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nWXYY TIL a family in the US found their son - conceived via IVF - was not theirs after taking an at-home ancestry test. The mistake was concluded to be human error and the boy now sees both families
5WyP TIL punk band The Dead Kennedys were invited to perform at the Bay Area Music Awards to play their song “California Über Alles”. Instead they wrote a new song “Pull My Strings” to make a mockery out of the event and mainstream music.
X046j TIL that in Ancient Greece, when Cimon was given a sentence of 'starvation till death', his daughter, Pero, kept him alive by breastfeeding her own father
PYY8w TIL Tom Petty needed an actress to be a dead woman for a music video. He explained his choice by saying "She's got to look really good, or why would [I] keep her around after she's dead?" I thought, Kim Basinger would be good. I'd probably keep her for a day or two, let's go see if she would do it."
4XYag TIL: Barry Manilow's hit "I Write the Songs" was originally recorded by The Captain & Tennille and was written by a member of The Beach Boys