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TIL A Turkish mother took care of a paralyzed Russian boy she didn't know for ten years until he died in 2018.

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yl7e TIL in 2013 a father in Tennessee was arrested for picking up his children from school on foot. The school had a policy that children can only be picked up by parents driving cars or kids can board a school bus.
6969m TIL that in ancient Babylon, doctors who failed to cure a patient or caused death could have their hands cut off as punishment
VDB8 TIL that only about 1% out of 1.25 billion people in India pay taxes
gk1X TIL Elvis Presley was known for being so generous that he had problems not buying strangers and friends expensive gifts. Elvis’s maid and cook Mary Jenkins was gifted six cars including three Cadillacs from him before his death. Elvis also gave his dentist and jeweler cars.
7LRX TIL that safety concerns about “pencil lead” were actually about lead being in the yellow paint on the pencils. Graphite has always been used as the core, and there was never a “lead” pencil in this century