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TIL Aristotle supported infant exposure in ancient Greece, arguing deformed babies "shall not live." Unwanted kids (often girls or sickly) were left outdoors to die "naturally"—seen as less brutal than direct killing.

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74oX TIL to get revenge on fellow Boy Scouts who bullied him, a Tokyo resident mailed more than 500 boxes of soggy, smelly garbage including old underwear and rotten tea leaves to his tormentors, writing a random destination as the address with the bully’s return address in order to escape detection.
woAJE TIL there are two Bermuda triangles. The commonly known Atlantic and another in the Pacific.
e0dYb TIL about Ellsworth & Emery Kolb, brothers from the early 1900's who "dangled from ropes, clung to sheer cliff walls by their fingertips, climbed inaccessible summits", and defied death to photograph the Grand Canyon
69YrX TIL that Inca Ruins in Sacsayhuamán - Peru was built in 14th Century with Limestone blocks those weight vary from 128 to 200 tonnes. These stones were moved from an estimated 35 away. Stones are so precisely spaced that a single piece of paper will still not fit between many of the them.
yVdKe TIL the 1971 Fight Of The Century between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, was the first time that two undefeated boxers who had both held the world heavyweight championship, fought for the championship.