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TIL Emily Rosa became the youngest person to publish in a medical journal (at 11 years old) when her school science project was published. It demonstrated that Reiki (a type of alternative medicine) practitioners could not detect the alleged "life force" under experimental conditions.

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8P8G TIL San Antonio, TX has the highest percentage of gay and lesbian parents in the US
m1nlE TIL The serial fraudster Charles W. Morse (AKA 'Ice King' from his New York ice monopoly) received a pardon from President Taft. The pardon was because Morse had Bright's Disease and would likely die in prison, it was later revealed that Morse had been consuming soap and chemicals to fake illness.
oRWo8 TIL that there is a species of bird called the Kakapo, also known as the "owl parrot," native to New Zealand. It is the world's only flightless parrot and is critically endangered, with only around 200 individuals left.
VrwD TIL of 3 men whom broke into a luxury store in Germany and ran off with $6.8M worth of jewelry. They left behind a piece of evidence, sweat. DNA analysis led to not one but two suspects- identical twins. They couldn’t determine from which one. They went free.
9MkG TIL a child molester who appeared in over 200 photographs of abuse used a ‘digital swirl’ effect to hide his identity. He was caught after police reversed the effect.