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TIL parental refusal of vaccination is child neglect

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6YD7 TIL in WWII the captain of a US cargo plane shot and killed a Japanese fighter pilot with only his Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) that was shoved through the cabin window.
JY5Rl TIL that Karl Marx's Great Great Grand-son is a sponsored professional freerunner.
nWdno TIL that in the United Kingdoms Parliament, there is a box of snuff (smokeless tobacco) that's been around since the 1600s, it is free for government officials to use, but the last time it was used was 1989. It is still kept to this day
bodE TIL that NASA did not actually spend $12 billion on a Space Pen while the Russians used a pencil.
rRLjw TIL-"Sell or Starve" Act of 1877. After defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Congress attached, what the Sioux call the "sell or starve" rider, to the Indian Appropriations Act of 1876 that cut off all rations for the Sioux until they terminated hostilities and ceded the Black Hills to the US