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TIL - Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children's Home Society which helped make adoption mainstream, but did so by abducting and selling children born to poor and unwed mothers. One of those abducted babies grew up to be Ric Flair.

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ANkjx TIL traditional Albanian tribal law (Kanun) may have originated in the Bronze Age, predating the Roman empire and the Homerian epics. Kanun is based on honor, hospitality, right conduct, and kin loyalty. In some parts of Albania, men are confined at home to avoid triggering inter-family blood feuds.
VMgP4 TIL the nurse being kissed by the sailor in the iconic V-J photo went unidentified for 20 years, when she self-identified and explained she "had stepped outside to see what the commotion was when I suddenly found myself in a sailor's embrace." The two had never met, and the photo was caught by luck.
Z8Q9a TIL about the 'Worst book ever written' called 'English as She Is spoke', a Portuguese-English phrasebook written by a man who did not speak English, Instead relying on a Portuguese–French phrasebook and a French–English dictionary.
yVnDM TIL about the Chamblee hostage incident, where a man named Kenneth Lamar Noid, believing Domino's "Noid" mascot was mocking him, took hostages in a restaurant with a gun in 1990.
Z8V7Y TIL of Michael Orchard, a heroic man who broke into his neighbor's burning home to rescue their dog, and who later found out that the house fire was actually NOT real but was just a hallucination from the LSD he was consuming.