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TIL: Martin Luther King paid the bill for Julia Roberts’ birth

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JrGk TIL two weeks after Hurricane Katrina, a task force rescued around 1400 frozen embryos stranded in a hospital without power. The embryos were considered to be people under Louisiana law.
8aLvP TIL Jimmy Neutron never got cancelled. DNA Productions decided to make The Ant Bully, which did so poor in the box office it actually sent the whole company under in 2006.
rl7W TIL In Mongolia, if your foot taps against someone else’s, it is respectful to immediately shake hands with them.
gx0D TIL that due to the growing popularity of ‘pubic grooming’, genital crabs are now an endangered species.
Kpj9 TIL the bird Americans call a “turkey” is called an India in Turkey, and a Peru in Portugese.