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TIL that a group of scientists once turned a live cat into a functioning telephone in the 1920s

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YXpP TIL that in 31 states a rapist can legally be granted child custody and visitation rights to the child fathered through rape.
b6vYZ TIL that hurricanes cannot form within 300 miles of the equator, due to a lack of the Coriolis effect, which causes winds to curve to the right, in the Northern Hemisphere, and to the left, in the Southern Hemisphere, because of the Earth’s rotation.
npZ7 TIL if you buy a Toshiba laptop and it breaks, UPS will send you a return-shipping box, repair the laptop and ship the laptop back to you. Everyone who handles your laptop works for UPS, not Toshiba.
8X58 TIL that people estimate NASA’s budget to be 24% of the national budget, on average. It’s currently only ~0.48%.
bgN4 TIL the government only recognized Area 51 as an actual government location in 2003.