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TIL in 2008, Nebraska's new "Safe Haven" laws allowing babies to be abandoned anonymously without fear of prosecution had to be changed after dozens of older children were abandoned within the first few months -- none of whom were babies. The law was revised to include an age limit of one year.

0wOBL TIL about Memory of Mankind, a sophisticated time capsule project in Austria designed to last a million years. The designers made a system for the capsule to be discovered by a future society and even planned for the possibility of it being discovered by alien life.
J1RQB TIL Galileo Ferraris' invention of Induction Motor, as well as the Three-Phase power systems proceeded Telsa's by 8 months. Infact, The inventor of the Modern Induction Motor (Squirrel Cage) and Three-Phase Power Systems Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, attributed Ferraris as his precursor.
1aV07 TIL the quietest place on Earth is in a small studio in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At -13 dBA it’s so quiet you can hear the internal workings of your body.
Bgngk TIL that among the three dogs that survived the Titanic sinking was a Pekingese named Sun Yat Sen owned by Henry Harper, whose company became the HarperCollins publishing house. As to bringing his dog on the lifeboat, Harper said “There seemed to be lots of room, and nobody made any objection.”
E1mn7 TIL Dave Chappelle agreed to be in 'A Star is Born' after Bradley Cooper flew to a party hosted by Chappelle in Ohio to ask him to join the cast. Cooper had to persistently bother Chappelle before he agreed to be in the film.