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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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vdZK TIL that Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, both broke nyc teenagers in love with the theatre, shared single tickets to local plays and traded off at intermission, filling the other one in on the plot so far.
69kl TIL there is an Iraqi version of “Punk’d” where they plant fake bombs in celebrity’s cars.
VMKAB TIL of Kris Boesen, a young man who is the first fully quadriplegic person to regain use of his arms after an experimental stem cell injection surgery; he was paralyzed from the neck down after a car crash, and then had surgery which injected 10 million AST-OPC1 cells.
6EGKm TIL due to lash back from a Far Side cartoon where a female chimp finds a human hair on the male she is grooming and says, “Conducting a little ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”, Gary Larson now donates all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon to The Jane Goodall Institute.
8ep4 TIL that all Pakistani passports bear the inscription “This passport is valid for all countries of the World except Israel.”