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TIL Georgia Tann became a millionaire in the 1930s by babynapping poor people's children, falsifying birth records, and selling them to rich families out of state for upwards of $5,000 (around $91,000 today) such as Joan Crawford and wrestler Ric Flair's adoptive parents.

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xVPpD Today I learned that Bryan Ware created the Crayon Initiative that collects used crayons from restaurants and melts them down to make new crayons for children's hospitals.
Z89ZD TIL the pinching force of "29 coconut crabs collected from the northern part of Okinawa Island" in Japan "ranged from 29.4 to 1765.2 N." "During our field study," write the researchers, "obtaining data for analysis was challenging, as the large claws of this crab pinched us on multiple occasions."
j06M TIL that the scent of a woman crying triggers a dramatic decrease in levels of testosterone and sexual arousal in the majority of men. And that men are subconsciously able to differentiate between genuine tears, and those that are forced.
4kvZ6 TIL when Lee Harvey Oswald arrived in Moscow, he said to the interpreter about his communist beliefs and intention to obtain the nationality of the USSR. For his twentieth birthday, two days after Oswald's arrival, this interpreter gives him a copy of Dostoevsky’s novel "The Idiot".
8BYa TIL on Feburary 27, 1717 a series of massive snowstorms began in New England. A week later, 95% of the deer population had died and many single-story homes were completely buried.