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TIL that Lee Jong-rak created a “baby box”. He built it beside his house to allow parents to deposit their mentally handicapped or unwanted babies, to stop them being abandoned on the side of the road.

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dXOZ TIL the United States is the only developed country without mandated vacation time for workers.
Wpm4 TIL: Bill Nye’s father was in a POW camp for four years during WWII
PZrL TIL there is a creek in Wyoming that splits and flows to both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is thought that cutthroat trout used this passage to cross the Continental Divide.
M1Za TIL; Some Activists Accidentally Destroyed 15,000 year old cave paintings, mistaking them for “Graffiti”.
R5v77 TIL about the "de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle" which was expected to become the US' standard reconnaissance machine. Unveiled in 1954, it required the unlucky user to stand on a platform above four whirling blades, which he then steered by tilting his bodyweight in the direction he wished to move.