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TIL Oxana Malaya wad abandoned by her alcoholic parents at age 2, and for the next 5 years lived with a pack of dogs. At 7 years old, she couldn't speak, walked on all fours and behaved like a dog in every way

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GY9a4 TIL that an Indian fan spent the whole day at a match in Toronto shouting 'aloo' (potato) through a megaphone at overweight Pakistani cricket captain, Inzamam-ul-Haq, until finally Inzamam invaded the crowd and attacked the fan with a cricket bat, causing a mass brawl
R5dVl TIL about Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, a 14th century philosopher who wrote a now famous poem wishing and longing to be transformed into a woman... And cursing the world for making it impossible.
QeQL TIL in 2005 a Baltimore man was arrested and handcuffed to a pole for 3 hours for paying a $114 fee with 57 $2 bills. The Secret Service was called to make sure it wasn’t counterfeit money - which it indeed was not.
PXyg TIL that as of 2003, there were between 50 and 100 people in the US who had nuclear-powered pacemakers.
Wk7KB TIL that Balthasar Gérard, assassin of William I of Orange (ancestor of the Dutch monarchy) received a torture and execution that was gruesome even by the standards of his time. Part of the execution decree stated that "his heart should be torn from his bosom and flung in his face."