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TIL that birds won’t abandon their nestlings if they smell like humans

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b9axE TIL of Rondo Hatton, voted 'Most Handsome' in high school but who later developed acromegaly, a disease that grotesquely altered his facial features. Falling into depression, he was spotted by a Hollywood director and offered a film role, which Hatton then parlayed into a long career in horror films
ZL14 TIL that the Titanic captain Edward Smith had crashed another ship just seven months before the Titanic sunk
DQMV TIL Kurdish children in Turkish prisons prison are deprived of food and medical treatment, beaten while naked with iron bars by prison staff, and sexually abused by adult prisoners
BrxXr TIL gay and trans people were widely accepted in India, until European colonists made them illegal.
mxLQR TIL that a woman discovered from watching TV that her current house was once owned by a serial killer who used to torture women in the basement