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TIL Robin Williams protested 'It's my voice! You can't stop me.' against Disney when they tried to prevent him from voice acting in Ferngully: The Last Rainforest

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9YxJm TIL of a 7 year old feral child found in Russia last 2008 who was called The Bird Boy because he lived with birds in a virtual aviary and could not speak, only chirp because his mother never talked to him and he would flap his arms when he was approached by people just like a bird.
nWlPd TIL that a male cocaine addict who fathers a son passes on genetic adaptations that reduce or prevent susceptibility to cocaine addiction in that son. It doesn’t work for daughters, though.
RPoa TIL there’s an experimental township in India founded in 1968 called Auroville. Where citizens are from all over the world and there’s no money or religion.
PYrRE TIL there is a sound frequency that is said to induce a feeling of fear even when it is inaudible.
GLnj TIL the creator of the American incarnation of Mothers Day’s later denounced the holiday and tried to have it removed from the national calendar because it became too commercialized.