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TIL that before becoming president of the American Pediatric Society Saul Krugman experimented on mentally disabled children by purposefully infecting them with Hepatitis

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BrnDd TIL that praying mantes eat hummingbird brains:
D1d1Y Today i learned that a man was arrested after airport security became suspicious of bumps found under his pants which turned out to be 64 alive birds,and 2 dead, stitched into the lining near his groin.
QNRG9 TIL that in 2019, a 65-year-old man in Colorado robbed a bank, threw the money into the street while shouting "Merry Christmas!", and then calmly waited for the police at a nearby Starbucks.
78ZbP TIL Bob Seger’s Old Time Rock and Roll was released in 1978, which means he was singing about music that was ~20 years old. That’s like a song today saying The White Stripes and Modest Mouse were the pinnacle of music.
W598 TIL, Theodore Roosevelt referred to Thomas Paine, who came up with the terms “United States of America,” as a “filthy little atheist.”