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TIL that families in blood debt some times attempt to resolve the situation by leaving a baby (face down into a pillow) on their doorstep. If the grieving family turn the baby over, they accept it into their home and the 2 families are related. If they leave the baby to die, the feud intensifies.

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XEx8r TIL that the 1936 film 'Circus' - Stalin's favourite and the most successful of all time within the Soviet Union - was about an American woman with a Mixed Race son, who finds acceptance in the USSR. The movie's climax had the boy being held and sung to lovingly by various Soviet ethnic groups.
k9R4 TIL that cats don’t have taste receptors that react to sweet things. This means that cats, from lions and tigers right down to domestic felines, cannot taste anything sweet.
9YaZM TIL someone on the set of titanic spiked the seafood chowder with PCP and got dozens of cast and crew members high including director James Cameron
LQvam TIL that the Vatican Church recognised the Capybara, technically a rodent, as a fish which led to it being eaten during the meat free Lent season.
78wAx TIL on 3 December 1894, the author of Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson was talking to his wife and straining to open a bottle of wine when he suddenly exclaimed, "What's that?", then asked his wife, "Does my face look strange?", and collapsed and died a few hours later due to a stroke.