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TIL; Metallica provides grants for personal trade education

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XEd0P TIL of baby boxes - heated boxes in south Seoul for parents to anonymously leave their abandoned new-born children inside. Most who abandon their babies are mothers who are unwed or victims of sexual violence. These baby boxes have saved thousands of abandoned babies since 2009.
j6Gbv TIL in order to inform shoppers in Mexico about poor nutritional content in prepackaged foods, the law states that packages containing foods with excess levels of calories, sugars, saturated fat, or containing caffeine or sweeteners must be labeled with large octagonal warnings exposing these facts.
5Yg1R TIL that zebras - not the big cats - are the number one cause of injuries and death to zookeepers. This is due to their aggressive nature and the strength of both their bite and kick.
KOPd9 TIL of Adolfo Kaminsky, a 18 year-old French forger who faked IDs for Jews during WWII. He once worked for 3 days straight to make papers for 300 children until he passed out. He kept his work a secret - his own daughter only learned the details while writing a book about him.
8keZ TIL A helicopter pilot landed on the summit of Everest then did it again the next day to prove it wasn’t a fluke