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TIL a man was arrested for ‘kidnapping’ his own son, after neighbours didn’t recognise him with his new beard

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ANaQa TIL clinical obesity is considered so beautiful in sub-Saharan Africa that people use drugs to gain more weight.
bYp7 TIL There Have Only Been 3 Perfect Games in Putt-Putt Professional Golfers Association (PPPGA) History
90Y7 TIL a white woman married an African slave in 1681 Maryland, even though this bound her to serve her husband’s master, and their children would be born into slavery. Their descendants, all slaves, challenged the law, but only her great-great-granddaughter won freedom 100 years later.
r8vx TIL Nikola Tesla was able to do integral calculus in his head, leading his teachers to believe he was cheating.
KOD0w TIL The first settler to successfully grow commercial Tobacco was John Rolfe in Jamestown, in Virginia in 1609. In 1614, the first shipment was sent to England. In 1638, 3,000,000 pounds was being sent annually. By the 1680s, Jamestown was producing over 25,000,000 pounds for export to Europe.