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TIL - In April 2001 a parody internet protocol was implemented IRL via pigeons!

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5VWlQ TIL that Olive Oatman, a white girl kidnapped by Native Americans in 1851 and sold to the Mojave people as a slave, caused an uproar after returning to white society bare-breasted with blue tattoos across her face, which inspired the book "Life Among the Indians", an early American best seller.
ADkJ7 TIL HBO had to hire a team of 160 lawyers before releasing its film "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" beause of the Church's litigious nature
4kNaN TIL that yawning is linked to empathy among primates, and that even fish and birds can yawn.
7LxZ TIL an Arizona teen was sentenced to spend 6 years in a state facility after being accused of making a lewd phone call. His case led to a Supreme Court decision mandating juveniles be granted all the constitutional safeguards of a criminal trial.
GYeoN TIL: Less than half of India’s children between the age 6 and 14 go to school