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TIL More than 90% of people with developmental disabilities will experience some form of sexual abuse at some time in their lives. 49% will experience 10 or more abusive incidents

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e0VE4 TIL inspired by the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back," a software developer gathered over 8,000 lines of text from friends and family of her recently deceased best friend, and used it to create an artificial intelligence simulation of him.
b96xj TIL Carrie Fisher used gaffer's tape to hold down her breasts because George Lucas 'didn't want her looking too aggressively feminine'. Carrie Fisher joked about it saying: 'No breasts bounce in space, no jiggling in the Empire'.
Eg4aP TIL Birds can eat rice safely, they don't explode and die. It was a 1996 urban legend that has been spread every wedding season.
eyjn TIL there’s a casino in Las Vegas that only opens for eight hours once every two years just to keep its casino license from lapsing.
oG8L TIL the writers of Parks & Rec didn’t know Nick Offerman could already play the saxophone when they made his character Ron Swanson a secret saxophone player