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TIL of Dubay v. Wells (2006), a child support case. Dubay argued he should not have to pay child support for a child he did not want to parent. It was dismissed in appeals. Dubay was asked to appeal to the US Supreme Court, but Dubay declined.

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R7BLl TIL Ching Chow, a comic strip that was filled with stereotypical Chinese jokes managed to stay in papers until 1990 and was popular among gamblers as they thought it contained secrets for sports betting
OoLWe Today I learned that in the 1880s, a young man named Larry Donovan attempted to make a living solely by jumping off high bridges. When he died at the age of 26, his mother was quoted in the newspaper saying: "I told him that jumping off bridges was a poor way of earning a living."
epKpk TIL of all the volcanoes on earth, on average one erupts every week
loVlB TIL: In Taiwan, today, August 8th is celebrated as Father's Day because in Mandarin, 08/08 has the same pronunciation as the word for father: "Ba Ba"
mxevR TIL of Alexander of Abonoteichus, a roman era cult leader who made people believe a sock-puppet was a snake-god. He was so influential even the emperor joined his cult, and the few sceptics who opposed him were christians, epicureans and writer Lucian of Samosata, who tried to expose him as a fraud