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TIL Barry Bonds record breaking home run ball was donated to the baseball hall of fame branded with an asterisk

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e0ANb TIL when parents do not give their infant enough attention, the child may develop "Avoidant Attachment". Left with a deep sense of emptiness, the child copes by being distant towards others, rejecting affection, avoiding emotional intimacy and showing little to no reaction towards pain and trauma
Egp TIL Arabs enslaved at least twice as many Africans than what the trans-Atlantic slave trade produced
kJAAg TIL in December 1967, then sitting Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt went missing while swimming and was never found. Shortly after, a community swimming pool in Melbourne was named after him...
noVY TIL that UC Davis researchers devised a test for bomb and drug-sniffing dogs. They put dogs through 144 runs of a clean room with no drugs or explosives. But the dogs indicated on 123 runs, indicating a failure rate of 85% according to the test’s criteria.
0we4R TIL in 1999 Professor Bill Ditto made a simple calculator using the neurons taken out of leeches; word's first biological computer. It was aptly named the "leech-ulator".