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TIL The bicycle is one of the most efficient inventions in the history of mankind, getting the equivalent of 912 miles per gallon (388 km/ltr)

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lo1lK TIL: about Tim Ballard, who left his job as a special agent for Homeland security and created an organization focusing solely on child Trafficking. To this day, he has saved 1000s' of victims and has arrested over 750 Traffuckers. and oh Yea, he also writes books
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DKNV TIL in 1849 New York, a man would walk up to strangers and begin a conversation. Gaining their trust, he would ask “Have you the confidence to trust me with your watch until tomorrow?” He would never return. When finally caught, he was labeled a “confidence man”, later shortened to simply “con man”.
NMLM TIL that a premature baby, after it had been declared dead, was brought back to life after the mother cuddled with him for two hours.