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TIL Devonte Hart, the 12 year old boy in the iconic photo hugging the cop, was murdered last year along with his 5 adopted siblings, by his parents.

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WyY8 TIL that the wrinkling of fingers after long exposure to water is not due to water absorption, but is a nervous system response that can be disabled by nerve damage.
Q06 TIL that the origin of the word “Conundrum” is unknown. Yet etymologists are satisfied with this because it suits the word.
K05a TIL that Cartman’s mom, Liane, is named after Trey Parker’s cheating ex-fiancee, thus the jokes about her promiscuity.
PYV9E TIL that the last official engagement Australian PM Harold Holt was invited to before his disappearance in 1967 was a screening of a movie that cast a Malysian born actor and a and white actor as Indigenous Australians
dvBQ TIL a biologist named Norman Borlaug developed a new disease-resistant strain of wheat modified to triple its yield. He is credited with saving 1 billion lives in India and won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize.