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TIL: 70% of hearing parents of deaf children never learn sign language.

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yVdJV TIL that Icelanders gather every fall to save baby puffins (pufflings) that have gotten lost and they do it by throwing them off a cliff.
JYyjk TIL: Quaker Oats fed radioactive milk and oatmeal to unsuspecting special needs kids under the guise of a science club in order to find out how beneficial certain nutrients were in their oats.
VEZ TIL George Takei decided to sell a clip of himself saying “Oh Myyy” as a ringtone in order to fund a production of his musical Allegiance
BrXYD TIL Ulysses S. Grant was broke and dying of throat cancer, when Mark Twain offered an unheard of 75% of royalties to his widow for him to write his memoirs. Julia Grant received $450,000 dollars from royalties.
LyeZ TIL that in order to highlight the dangers of using a phone while driving, Belgian road safety experts told a group of learner drivers they must avoid obstacles whilst texting in order to get their licence