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TIL “Wet houses”–permanent supportive housing where formerly homeless, chronic alcoholics are allowed to drink and live–saved Seattle over $4 million in the first year and continually saves lives

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pYE68 TIL about Motty, the only proven hybrid between an Asian and an African elephant. It died at the age of 10 days due to an umbilical infection.
Rmna TIL automatic (switchblade, etc.) knives are illegal to own in Michigan, except for one-armed people.
1LW8 TIL there is a 16 year old girl who still looks, acts, and thinks as a baby due to an unknown disorder.
yQJQv TIL chronic dehydration can cause respiratory problems.
QJAXX TIL that for decades, anatomists and zoologists were confounded by the origin of whales. Then, at the end of the 20th century, a wealth of fossil finds provided a detailed outline of how hoofed land mammals became the sea’s largest swimmers.