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TIL Virginia rounds up its sex offenders to be held at the courthouse during trick-or-treating hours.

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QNWlX TIL that turkeys can sometimes reproduce asexually, forming near-clones of themselves.
7rZX7 TIL a woman in Mexico named Ines Ramirez performed a C-section on herself after hours of painful contractions. Fearing that her baby would be stillborn, she drank 2 cups of high-proof alcohol and used a kitchen knife to make the incision. Both the mother and the baby survived.
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