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TIL that the United States is the only country that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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XEbmD TIL that many European celebrities, including Holywood actors Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, George Segals, were stranded in Czechoslovakia when the Warsaw Pact nations invaded in 1968
9Yy8X TIL that schizophrenia also affects the person with a specific odour.
J0l TIL that the original and proper term actually is ‘duck tape’, as it was made for use by US GIs in WWII, who named it duck tape for its waterproofing abilities
N7MVb TIL Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, rewrote her novel word for word when she had dementia in her later years, unaware she had already written her most influential work
oBo8r TIL that the mother of Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction/Red Hot Chili Peppers) was murdered in 1983 when he was just 15 years old. in 2015, he released a documentary called Mourning Son, addressing his mother's murder as well as his battle with addiction subsequent to her death.