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TIL Up until 1915 it was legal to mail a baby by US Mail

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lobJa TIL the claim that Space Invaders caused a national 100-yen coin shortage in Japan in the late 70s is a myth. It was largely due to low production of the coin as metal composition changed - copper-nickel instead of silver - made people hoard the silver coins.
OogaR TIL Craig Sager cut his son off from his will and left him with all the medical bills after his son spent 9 days at a hospital to donate stem cells for his father’s cancer treatment
Zp5bR TIL that Dragon Ball was originally inspired by the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. The creator, Akira Toriyama, drew heavily from the story's characters and themes, with Goku being loosely based on the Monkey King, Sun Wukong.
epAK5 TIL dub reggae music was made by mistake when King Tubby, Bunny Lee and others were at the Treasure Islands studio and the engineer, while mixing, forgot to put the voice on a track.
BJpe TIL that 18 states do not allow the parental rights of rapists to be terminated. This is true even if the rapist is convicted.