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TIL USA is the ONLY developed country that provide no type of financial assistance to new parents.

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BnWK TIL Blue food coloring has been shown to improve recovery from spinal cord injury when injected into the spine of rats.
OPQR TIL that a young Richard Branson had his flight to the Virgin Islands cancelled, so he chartered a private airplane. Not having enough money to do so, he picked up a small blackboard, wrote “Virgin Airlines $29” on it, sold tickets for the rest of the seats, and used that money to pay for the ride.
Rw9Q TIL that if you hit a moose with your car in Maine, you get first dibs on the carcass
PYprZ TIL: Robert Fortune was a Scottish man who infiltrated the Chinese tea industry in the 19th century, eventually smuggling out tea plants and revealing that the Chinese had been dying their tea with hazardous dyes, effectively ended the Chinese tea industry at the time.
kJBwE TIL Marilyn Monroe's likeness does not have any post-mortem protection as she was domiciled in New York at the time of her death and there are no federal publicity rights.