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TIL some states/cities consider it ownership to feed stray animals. They have laws which state if you feed strays, you are acting in responsibility for it as an owner. As a result, you're held legally liable for the animal's behavior (attacks) and liable for its medical needs (shots and checkups).

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LOjd TIL there is a film adaptation of a former McDonald’s teenage employee who was held against her will, strip searched, sexually assaulted, spanked, and physically humiliated all because of a prank call by a guy claiming he was a cop. Everyone thought it was all legitimate.
AD9Lx TIL of the Semmelweis reflex, a tendency to reject evidence that contradicts existing beliefs. Documented when doctors refused to wash their hands from autopsies to delivery rooms despite evidence this decreases mortality.
XEbbX TIL Artists Ivan Seal and James Kirby (The Caretaker), released an album named "Everywhere At The End of Time" that uses electronically altered music to explore the advancement and totality of dementia. The album spans six stages with descriptions of each stage as it develops.
0dNMv TIL Garth Brooks is the best-selling solo artist in U.S. history, and second best-selling of a group/artist, only losing to The Beatles.
wvoJ TIL 700 years ago a monk scraped off the ink of old parchment to write a new prayer book. Recent discoveries find that the paper he erased was a manuscript wriitten by Archimedes that laid out the heart of calculus thousands of years before Newton was even born.