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TIL An infant starved to death while parents raised virtual child in online game

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wLgL6 TIL the etymology of the word “humiliation” has a universal characteristic in the sense that in all languages the word involves “downward spatial orientation” in which “something or someone is pushed down and forcefully held there."
8doP TIL in the US a teenager can choose to honor or void a contract they have signed at any time before they turn 18 (and they don’t have to give up everything they own)
A6Lx TIL It Costs Less to Give the Homeless Housing Than to Leave Them on the Street
5Vy18 TIL Pope Pius XII once asserted in a speech that the Big Bang theory scientifically proved that the universe was created by a divine creator. Horrified, the physicist Georges Lemaître convinced the Pope not to make any further statements connecting his theory and theology.
11RP TIL that despite the popular myth, urine isn’t actually sterile.