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TIL the Netherlands government will subsidize sex from prostitutes for disabled citizens.

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awQb TIL that the supply of Plutonium-238, the fuel used to power Curiosity and other exploratory spacecraft, is nearly depleted and is no longer being produced by either the US or Russia.
db59 TIL: Steve Sipek, who played Tarzan in “Tarzan And The Brown Prince”, was once saved by a fire on the movie set by a lion who dragged him to safety. Sipek then adopted the lion out of gratitude, and started an animal sanctuary in Florida.
OGV17 TIL that Alfred Hitchcock directed 11 silent films and the first British talkie, Blackmail (1929)
nW7p7 TIL The movie Crossfire (1947) was based on the book The Brick Foxhole (1945). The book focused on homophobia but the film was changed to focus on anti-semitism because the Hays Code prohibited homosexual content.
pmAA TIL that Fred Trump, the father of Donald Trump, was best known as one of a small number of major builders of middle class housing in New York after WWII. His estate at his time of death was estimated at up to $300 million, but he did not believe in displays of wealth.