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TIL that France has inheritance laws that automatically give a significant portion of inheritance to each child and children cannot be disowned in the will

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E1EGV TIL that in the 1940s, the Canadian government deliberately starved and Indigenous children and used them as test subjects just to study the value of vitamins
7rpZb TIL about "one of the biggest companies you've never heard of". Acxiom gathers information on some 700 m people, with up to 1,500 data points per person, for ultra targeted marketing. Down to the list of people who buy particular brands of cereal in your local supermarket.
x6Eng TIL the earliest known use of prosthetics goes back to ancient Egypt and Iran, circa 3000 BCE.
KbA6 TIL that a Swedish man survived for two months in a car that had been snowed over. He ate only snow, and survived due a “igloo effect”.
KOl69 TIL: The dog who played Queenie in "The Burbs" also starred as Buffalo Bill's dog in "Silence of the Lambs." She was also cast in "Batman Returns," "Pee Wee's Big Adventure," and the sitcom "Coach."