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TIL parents in China can sue their children if they do not visit often enough

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lPo5 TIL New York Times Reporter William Seabrook, in the interests of research, obtained a chunk of human meat from the body of a healthy human killed in an accident, then cooked and ate it. He reported, “It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef.
v1eX7 A new print-in-place technique for electronics is gentle enough to work on delicate surfaces including paper and human skin, researchers report. The advance could enable technologies such as high-adhesion, embedded electronic tattoos, and bandages tricked out with patient-specific biosensors.
oBgXW TIL about the Lead-crime Hypothesis: Researchers have found that the elimination of leaded gasoline in the US accounted for up to a 56% drop in violent crime rates between 1992 and 2002.
rNW41 TIL that the last convicted Salem “witch” whose name had yet to be cleared, was officially exonerated just last year. Elizabeth Johnson Jr. was “innocent” of practicing witchcraft as of July 2022.
Ym1B TIL the fire hydrant patent was destroyed when the patent office in Washington D.C. caught on fire in 1836