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TIL in the 70’s, Dolly Parton once found a baby girl left in a basket outside of her home, with a note that read ‘My name is Jolene, my momma has left me here and she wants you to have me.’ Dolly took care of baby Jolene until children services was able to come pick her up.

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wLV51 TIL about the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea, a detailed annual record which a king was never allowed to read, to maintain its impartiality. One time, a king told others to keep his falling off a horse secret from the scribe. His request was recorded.
b9JoE TIL there is a radio station in New Orleans for the blind. Volunteers every day read the local newspaper on the air, along best-sellers, grocery ads, stories for kids, mysteries, the Wall Street Journal, young adult novels and much more.
epeNL TIL Despite having possessed four colonies in Africa, Italy teaches its language in only one Eritrean school
GAXN4 TIL China refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles as it gave the German leased territory in China to Japan, and therefore had to sign a separate peace treaty with Germany
n6LY TIL That polar bears have a bone inside their penis to keep an erection going, and that pollution is causing the bones to weaken to the point where the bones are breaking.