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TIL according to top addiction experts, “Giving your child a smartphone is like giving them a gram of cocaine”.

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Jjom TIL in 1985, the writers of Sesame Street decided that the adult characters needed to be shown to believe Big Bird about Snuffleupagus due to concerns that if they did not, children would fear that adults/parents would not believe them about an adult abusing them if they told.
DNgV TIL that male dolphins have been known to keep females hostage and not feed them until the female agrees to have sex with them.
j6oMR TIL: Vietnam has a few unique monsters, one is the Ma Vú Dài, a lady ghost with long breasts that attacks victims at night to forcefully breastfeed them until they fall unconscious. In the 60s, prisoners in Saigon reported seeing a women with long breasts force feeding cellmates.
E1kZd TIL that the Killer Whale is a natural predator of the Moose
ADOxn TIL that Tom Wilson, who portrayed Biff Tannen in the Back to The Future trilogy made a song answering the most repetitive questions about the films that he wishes people would stop asking him. It's called "The Question Song."