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TIL when he was in his 20's NBA legend Karl Malone impregnated a 13 year old. He never faced charges and refused child support for years. The son born to the 13 year old was drafted into the NFL in 2008

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x6P5B TIL in the Salem Witch Trials, none of the guilty were burned at the stake -- 19 were hung and 1 was pressed to death by stones -- and 6 of the 20 killed were men
OoGOX The sky appears blue for a combination of two reasons. Before white light reaches the Earth's surface, the light waves collide with and bounce off of the nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the atmosphere. Different frequencies of light (in other words different colours) are scattered differently. Higher frequencies (blue and purple) are more easily scattered and thus bounce around in all different directions more than lower frequencies (red or orange) do. The scattering of high frequencies alone would cause the sky to appear blue and purple, but our eyes work better at frequencies near the middle of the spectrum (yellow and green). Since the colour blue is closer to yellow or green than purple is, the sky we see appears blue.
KbrE TIL Ol Dirty Bastard from the Wu-tang Clan helped lift a ford mustang off of a 4 year old girl who was just in a car accident. Using a false name he visited the girl frequently until he was spotted by members of the media.
XGaj TIL in 2014 Japan debuted the world’s largest indoor farm using LED lights that emit wavelengths optimal for plant growth; The upshot: grows 2.5x faster than outdoors; reduces produce loss from 50% to just 10% and cuts water usage to just 1%
gaw9 TIL A South Carolina teacher once read “Enders Game” to her class and got suspended for it because they said it was Pornographic