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TIL people cuddle for a living. For $50 you can cuddle with a professional ‘snuggler’

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d8lOK TIL Courtroom drawing as we know it in the United States was born in response to the 1935 media circus over the kidnapping and killing of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s infant son. The American Bar Association put forth a ban on cameras—leaving news outlets to seek alternate means of coverage.
dlKd TIL Henry Winkler (‘The Fonz’) has dyslexia, has written an 18-book children’s series whose main character is dyslexic, and he plays the kid’s music teacher in a BBC TV adaptation. The teacher is based on the one person who provided him moral support in his own schooling.
wLNO6 TIL that French call AA batteries "Mignon" (french for 'cute' or 'adorable') and Poles call them "Paluszki" (meaning 'little fingers')
Z8RGY TIL The Costume Museum of Canada holds more than 35,000 textile artifacts reflecting clothing worn over a 400-year period. However, it was on the edge of bankruptcy and closed its doors to the public in 2010
e00Qg TIL that the Catholic Church never taught against evolution or the big bang. In fact, the first to propose the theory of the expansion of the universe (Georges Lemaître) and founder of the science of genetics (Gregor Mendel) which explains the mechanism behind evolution were both Catholic priests.