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TIL teeth are not bones but are evolved fish scales

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xvwB TIL after Nebraska passed a Safe Haven law meant to decrease the number of “dumpster babies,” people started abandoning their teenage children. One father abandoned 9 of his 10 kids.
grj6y TIL before going down the ladder of the lunar lander, Neil Armstrong threw a bag of trash on the moon. It then became the subject of the very first photograph he took on the moons surface.
5VgZp TIL about "Man Proposes, God Disposes", an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Edwin Landseer inspired by the search for Franklin's lost expedition. The painting, which depicts polar bears among the wreckage of the expedition, is considered haunted and a bad omen.
A5Po TIL that every ball used in an MLB game is covered in mud that comes from a secret location in New Jersey. A man skims through riverbanks to find the mud, then refines it before it’s applied to balls. It’s called the Lena Blackburne Original Baseball Rubbing Mud
wLroE TIL Schlitz was the first beermaker in the world to use a brown bottle. In 1902, Schlitz surpassed Pabst as the best selling American beer.