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

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7rPGO TIL In 1973 three austronauts aboard the space station Skylab engaged in mutiny, cutting all contact with NASA so they could have time to relax and enjoy the view.
9Y41X TIL that thousands of poor Black women were sterilized involuntarily in several southern states by white physicians when they presented for care for other health issues. The procedure became known as a Mississippi Appendectomy.
loxV7 TIL John Steinbeck’s dog, Toby, ate his manuscript of Of Mice and Men. There was no other draft. Steinbeck said of the incident, “I was pretty mad but the poor little fellow may have been acting critically. I didn’t want to ruin a good dog for a ms (manuscript), I’m not sure is good at all.”
RK07 TIL that infamous prisoner Charles Bronson released his hostage, a civilian librarian, after the man farted and Bronson was disgusted by him
Meknm TIL There are 150 million mammoths buried in frozen Siberian tundra. Trading in mammoth ivory is legal but elephant ivory is not, leading to poaching of mammoth tusk ivory. Hence, laws are being planned to include mammoth under protected species despite being extinct for 4000 years.