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TIL Russian scientist Alexandra Elbakyan created SciHub - a ‘Pirate Bay’ for scientific knowledge - and refuses to take it down while facing legal threats from the US

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9Wam TIL that after his daughter’s killer went on the run, a 76-year-old hired 2 men to find, kidnap and turn him over to the authorities. The dad then received a one-year suspended sentence for kidnapping.
Vwok TIL that Mother Teresa’s supposed “miracle cure” of a woman’s abdominal tumor was not a miracle at all. The patient’s doctors and husband said she was cured because she took medicine for 9-12 months. “My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle.”
x0A5 TIL that President Nixon, a Republican, originally signed the bill that provides Planned Parenthood with federal funding into law. He saw it as a way to keep people off of welfare.
68D7 TIL That Ken Griffey, Jr. played With His Dad during the MLB season of 1990 –and in one game, Sr. and Jr. hit back-to-back home-runs.
QN4B9 TIL that Wangari Maathai became the first Black woman to win the 2004 Nobel Peace for her environmental work in Kenya. She was also the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree.