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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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graJ7 TIL The two spacesuits for the tentative 2024 moon landing will cost over $1 Billion to develop, as NASA considers them to be complete, one-person space vehicles equipped with the latest tech and life-support systems.
rpee TIL Daniel Balsam is a US man who got so infuriated with constant email spam that he quit his job, got a law degree and has so far earned over 1 million USD in court judgements against the spammers.
kJoQ7 TIL former Italian football goalkeeper Davide Capello survived a 30 meter (100 foot) fall during a bridge collapse while driving his car in 2018. He walked away unscathed.
KO4bB TIL that Luckenbach, Texas, which was made famous in a Waylon Jennings song, has a population of 3.
BVkW TIL Chuck Berry earns all the royalties from the Beach Boy’s 1963 hit single Surfin USA, which he won in a copyright infringement lawsuit unbeknownst to the Beach Boys for 25 years.