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TIL an underground system governs the turf that China’s beggars can work: able-bodied beggars who intrude on territory reserved for the disabled or elderly are beaten

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M77b8 TIL of Mary Anning, who discovered, with her brother, the first ichthyosaur fossil at age 12. She would go on to discover many more fossils and revolutionize the science of paleontology. However, due to being a woman in the early 1800s, she rarely received full credit for her discoveries.
rNYOy TiL that Vermont declared war on Germany months before the United States.
RYja TIL : In 1726 a woman named Mary Toft tricked doctors into believing she had given birth to rabbits.She did so by showing dead rabbits up her vagina and then pushing them out hence “birthing” them.
beLQ TIL you are more likely to be killed by a toddler in the US than a terrorist
PQ1n TIL that Tylenol has been shown to reduce the emotional pain associated with anxiety.