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TIL of Marvin Maples, a Tennessee grandfather who kidnapped his grandchildren and moved to San Diego where they assumed false identities for 20 years. Maples claimed his daughter and her husband were a part of a Satanic cult and regularly abused their children.

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w9M8 TIL of Anekantavada, the belief that truth and reality are perceived differently from different points of view, and no single point of view is the complete truth, yet taken together they comprise the complete truth
xapD TIL that domestic violence is perpetrated by the woman as much as the man and that women are more likely to use a weapon and kill male children.
4kN56 TIL of Nihamanchi, a beer made from cassava and consumed by Indigenous peoples throughout the Amazon region. Its process involves chewing the cassava tubers, spitting them out into large jars and letting it ferment with the saliva. Its taste is described as like a "alcoholic buttermilk".
VMrM4 TIL that Carpenter Ants bite
KOjJ4 TIL there is more than one version of the holy Quran. While the current version was ‘Standardised’ in 1923, earlier manuscripts more recently discovered, show changes.