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TIL after Nebraska passed a Safe Haven law meant to decrease the number of “dumpster babies,” people started abandoning their teenage children. One father abandoned 9 of his 10 kids.

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Y8OZ TIL it is estimated that 1 in 5 victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima were Korean conscripts, brought over as forced labor.
N78K6 TIL about “The Husband Stitch”, a terrifying, yet very real medical procedure where an extra stitch is placed during the suturing repair process after a vaginal birth. The extra stitch is placed to “increase” the pleasure for a male sexual partner, usually per his request.
R74e1 TIL That Loofah Sponges are the interior of a gourd native to South East Asia. The young fruit is often grown as a food crop, and when the gourds mature, they get a hard fibrous interior which are often sold as cleaning sponges.
GErJ TIL Geraldo Rivera is largely responsible for the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic of the late 1980’s
4kkOo TIL Queen Elizabeth II is still the official monarch of Jamaica and has been since 1962