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TIL of a family falsely accused of abusing their son. Following british law, all their kids were forcibly put up for adoption. They are not allowed to see them, even after being proven innocent. When she got pregnant again, they had to move to Ireland so their child would not be taken away at birth.

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QJnWe TIL that our body odor could change because we're stuck at home ! Our smells come from the microbes living on our skin, and since we only have a few other people to swap microbes with, we're going to start smelling like the people we're cooped up with—making us smellier if they have smellier microbe
8agaG TIL elementary school children in Japan came together online by creating a virtual graduation ceremony in a Minecraft-rendered graduation hall with students attending as Minecraft avatars.
k9A4 TIL when elephants ‘dance’, they’re really mentally ill and depressed from confinement and restriction from freedom and socialising
Oo4RX TIL that President Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that the 1983 film The Day After "left me greatly depressed" and that it changed his mind on the policy on nuclear war. Reagan's memoirs drew a direct line from the film to his signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987.
v1WMD TIL unlike in the movie Die Hard, the escape hatch on an elevator can't be opened from the inside; by law, it's bolted shut from the outside. It’s there so that emergency personnel can get in, not so passengers can get out. If an elevator is in trouble, the safest place to be is inside the elevator.