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TIL that it’s such a stigma to adopt children in South Korea women are recommended to wear a maternity pillow to appear pregnant until the adoption is finalized

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pY9wO TIL that much of our understanding of early language development is derived from the case of an American girl (pseudonym Genie), a so-called feral child who was kept in nearly complete silence by her abusive father, developing no language before her release at age 13.
4O5w TIL that the world record for maximum time aloft (MTA) with a boomerang is 6.5 minutes.
0wkXR TIL that Octopuses have a sucker-proof coating on their skin to make sure they don't grab and tangle their own tentacles.
0wBlj TIL The reason why we want to squeeze cute things is because when we’re feeling overwhelmed by positive emotions we use a little bit of aggression to helps us balance out that high.
wLQmM TIL that one of the animators from Snow White and The Seven Dwarves (1937), Disney’s first animated feature film, is still alive today and was 8 years old during the 1918 Flu.