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TIL The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has its own version of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam

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PYVQZ TIL that social distancing is practised among mammals, fish, insects and birds to avoid disease. They stay apart and change behaviours; they cease grooming, avoid the sick and only touch close relatives.
dgGE TIL: Despite many of their most popular movies (Tarzan, Hercules, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty) coming from the free public domain, the Walt Disney Company actively fights to make sure Mickey Mouse will never enter the public domain.
meeO TIL a 4 year old boy ran away from home and become the lead of a wolf pack after he provided them with food. He lived with the wolves for 2 years, was caught by police, and later served in the Russian Army.
GYlj4 TIL Curious George, the beloved children's book and its authors, escaped the Nazis and the Holocaust by escaping France by bicycle. Margaret and H.A. Rey biked 439 miles from Paris to the Spain border with little else besides their unpublished manuscript about a mischievous monkey.
Me0Ym TIL that the Mary in "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was a real person. Her name was Mary Sawyer, and she brought a lamb to her school, where it was seen by John Roulstone, who wrote the basis for the nursery rhyme.