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TIL that Harbor Freight toss things you return into the dumpster

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R5Pnw TIL that Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss put his firstborn child, a girl, up for adoption as he was too poor to raise her at the time and never mentioned her to his six other children. The woman eventually connected with her birth family in 2018 and wrote a book about the experience.
7xAp TIL: Lobsters continuously grow, become more fertile, and show no signs of biological aging as they grow older.
N7RnN TIL that famed American composer Geroge Gershwin started his music career as a department store “song plugger”, playing piano sheet music by-request for potential customers so they could get a preview of the tune before buying it.
vPxd7 TIL that a new type of roar was discovered in African lions. Besides the classic “full-throated” roar, researchers using AI analysis found an “intermediate” lion roar previously unknown. This might help conservation-efforts through deeper insights on how lions communicate in the wild.
X070R TIL that in World War I Germany published warnings in American newspapers that they may attack the Lusitania