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TIL about Dina Sanichar the true inspiration behind'The Jungle Book'. Found by some hunters in a cave in Bulanshahr, India, Dina was a feral child raised by wolves. Forced to live in a human society for 20 years: couldn't learn how to walk or talk but got addicted to smoking and died of tuberculosis

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KYlea TIL the US constitution protects both ritual animal sacrifice and sports coaches holding public prayer with players before a sports game. Theoretically, a coach could sacrifice a goat to Satan before every little league game, and the state could not lawfully intervene or stop them.
O8dg TIL in the 1960s an Indo-American expedition tried to place a nuclear-powered monitoring device on a peak in the Himalayas, but it was lost in an avalanche. 5 kilograms of plutonium remain unaccounted for, somewhere near the source of the Ganges River.
79X TIL that unlike chess, professional go players overwhelmingly defeat the best computers
Mxk0 TIL that in “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” Rufus never tells them his name. They learn his name from their future selves, who mention it when they come back to visit their past selves at the Circle K.
16ZQV TIL: In 2019, a lawyer and a software developer brute force copyrighted every possible melody and entered them into public domain to insulate musicians from ‘stolen melody’ lawsuits.