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TIL parents in New York who don’t believe in diapers are teaching their babies to poop in the sink or on the street

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XE5oj TIL about the whistling language called Sylbo. Native to the Canary Islands, Sylbo is thousands of years old and developed as a means for inhabitants of La Gomera to communicate across deep ravines and narrow valleys.
GAWEj TIL in the middle of Boston, Massachusetts, there is a 120-year-old abandoned concert hall known as Steinert Hall that is 40 feet underground, buried beneath a piano store.
8ewyX TIL in 2014 sewol ferry tragedy, the crew was dranking beer while waiting rescue and the captain told students to stay in the ship and abandoning the ship,the tradegy kills over 300 students and the captain and his crew are now in jail.
BgOmK TIL that congress authorized the guards of the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetary to abandon their post due to hurricane Sandy. They refused and continued their duty.
RBgw TIL that in Japan, in 1997, a Pokemon scene with flashing lights induced mass seizures in children across the country. Reporting on the incident, the nightly news replayed the offending scene, prompting yet MORE seizures.