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TIL Aboriginal custom throughout Australia bans a person from talking directly to their mother in law or even seeing her. “The relationship is one of respect, but avoidance.”

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a8Ga0 TIL: Astronaut Anne McClain was the first person to be investigated for space crime in 2019, when her estranged wife accused her of accessing her bank account while in space. Fortunately, investigators found the accusations were false and her now ex was charged with making false statements.
vgn4 TIL the music in the compulsory anti-piracy ad on DVDs was illegally used
WEw8 TIL a father and his autistic son were stranded in the Atlantic ocean. They repeated “To infiniti and beyond” to keep track of each other for 15 hours before being rescued.
Rnx6 TIL that during wwII, the german forces built fake airfields with fake wooden planes in it. The allied forces waited until they finished them, then sent out air raids in which they dropped wooden bombs on them.
N76Lb TIL in 1905, in Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the Supreme Court ruled that states could enforce rules that restrain individual liberty, in favor of conserving the safety of the community