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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, author of a seminal philosophical work on education, gave up his 5 children to a foundling hospital, saying he “didn’t have the means to take care of them.”

Of the 967 people who died in jail in the U.S. in 2013, 76% had not been convicted of a crime.

Around 10:15 AM ET, signal-acquisition from the New Horizon’s spacecraft is expected to begin followed by the first download of science data from the flyby of Ultima Thule, some 9 hours prior. It takes a little over 6 hours for the signal to arrive at NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN).
The link includes details of where to watch and the timeline of press events for this historic mission.