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TIL Inuits effectively teach their children to control their anger and emotions not with discipline, but through stories.

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Oo0G4 TIL that during China's one child policy, most girls were simply not reported to officials, rather than killed/aborted. As many as 25 million unreported females may exist.
LQrrP TIL 50yrs ago the Arecibo Message was sent into space to communicate human existence to potential extraterrestrial life.
WkXJ8 TIL the pink fairy armadillo is barely half a foot long, and here is one on video in reduced sunlight foraging around in the sand for roots and grubs on a rural road, and luckily some passersby were able to film it in action. It is native to South America.It mostly active at dawn, dusk, and night.
ybBX TIL Kim Jong-Il wasn’t born in North Korea, but in the Soviet Union.
Qg8d TIL Adam Rainer is the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant. He was 4 ft tall at age 18, and 7 ft 8 at the time of his death at age 50.