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TIL a French court ruled that the geese and ducks of Dominique Douthe may continue to quack, rejecting the unnamed neighbor's complaint that the fowl noise prevented him/her from enjoying time in the garden & sleeping with windows open.

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lBDV TIL that Mark Wahlberg had a very troubled youth and was once convicted of attempted murder, attacked a man leaving him blind and was addicted to cocaine at the age of 13.
ANL6B TIL An animated sequel to "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" was released in 1985
4X9rg TIL The family Scapegoat is often the family member who is non-compliant with mistreatment, the whistle blower, expresses displeasure or advocates for their own needs, and is then demonized as the family problem, thereby establishing a ‘false narrative’ of victim blaming.
R5Jmw TIL that while researching oral poetry in Yugoslavia, researcher Milman Parry asked poet Milovan Vojičić to compose an improvised poem about himself. Using epithets and other formulaic phrases, Vojičić was able to write a short poem dubbed "the Song of Milman Parry".
A7wx TIL after hearing Kennedy’s “end of the decade” speech, an Englishman made a wager with a bookmaker of 10 pounds at 1000/1 “that a man will set foot on the surface of the moon before the first of January 1970.” He thought it was “a common sense bet.”