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TIL there are anonymous baby drop boxes where parents can surrender unwanted newborns without fear of prosecution.

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gMPd4 TIL that the Yoshiro Nakamatsu, inventor of the floppy disk, would routinely almost drown himself to push his brain and body to the limit in order to feed his inventiveness.
ADxWa TIL of the Mingun Bell, the heaviest functioning bell in the world until 2000.
rNdX1 TIL there is no evidence that Viking had horned helmets. Their depiction with horned helmets is a fallacy that began in the 1870s.
4kOdX TIL: About Saburō Kurusu, a Japanese diplomat to the United States during the Pearl Harbor attack. He was unaware of the attack and was on his way to the Secretary of State to deliver a reply to the previous diplomatic communications.
W7B0B TIL about the Doctor's Riot of 1788 in NYC, which left up to 20 dead and was a reaction to physicians and medical students stealing bodies from graves. It forced doctors in the city to go into hiding.