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TIL in 2007, the town of Tamaqua PA passed a law granting ecosystems legal rights. Any resident can file a lawsuit on behalf of the ecosystem.

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MNB0 TIL that if parents cleaned a dropped pacifier by sucking on it themselves before giving it back to their baby the child “had nearly 60 percent less eczema and 90 percent less asthma by 18 months compared to parents who used tap or boiling water.”
mxo5y TIL a rumor spread suggesting child actor Shirley Temple wore a wig. This led to fans on multiple occasions yanking at her hair to test the rumor. Temple's hair was in fact natural and she had to endure a nightly process in the setting of her curls, with weekly vinegar rinses that burned her eyes.
loDKA TIL The Roman legion of the "Legio IX Hispana", stationed in Britannia, mysteriously disappeared from surviving Roman records after around AD 120. There are no accounts on the disapperance, nor there has been any clear consensus on the matter.
awOYb TIL: Beethoven was such a massive star that following composers struggled to pull away from his artistic gravity. Brahms for example refused to make a symphony for 21 years, feeling unworthy. Schubert said: Who can ever do anything, after Beethoven?
XEvgP TIL that Phil Collins performed at Live Aid on both sides of the Atlantic, at London's Wembley Stadium and Philadelphia's JFK Stadium