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TIL Up until 1915 it was legal to mail a baby by US Mail
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TIL Everyone has stripes on their body called “Blaschko’s Lines” that are typically invisible without UV light.
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TIL ancient Egypt had many medical specialists, including proctologists which were called “shepherds of the anus”.
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TIL a 9 year old boy ran away from home to fight in the Civil War. The army adopted him as their drummer boy, being too young to be a soldier. At age 11, he became the youngest noncommissioned officer in Army history, and decades later he retired as the last veteran of the civil war on active duty.
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TIL that Kevin Carter committed suicide 3 months after winning the Pulitzer Prize for a photograph of a starving toddler being stalked by a vulture
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TIL about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn't stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive.