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TIL that millions of years ago Antarctica was once a rainforest that dinosaurs inhabited

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1DxX TIL A rapist still has parental rights over the child in the majority of US States
XQkX TIL Rich kids bragging on social media, such as Instagram, are unwittingly providing incriminating evidence for prosecutors about their parents’ fraud schemes. Cybersecurity firms say they have been using social media evidence to nail fraud and assets in up to 75 percent of their cases.
5Gn8 TIL A language teacher volunteered to teach troubled black high school students French in Watts, California after the race riots. The principal warned him he would “be sorry” but within a few weeks students were speaking to each other in French
GYpKg TIL that 85% of Native American children were taken from their homes fron the 1940's to the 1970's and placed up for adoption in non-Indian homes in an attempt to make the tribes go extinct.
JYJ74 TIL that MIT students discovered that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets in the Massachusetts' Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. Over 5 years, they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.