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TIL Belgium parliament has passed a bill allowing children with terminal illness to decide if they want to live or not.

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eOV6 TIL: one of Iran’s most revered martyrs was American. To this day, Iranians put flowers on his grave.
jNv0Q TIL that moths vibrate their genitals to jam bat sonar
KOap9 TIL that the widowed wife of Lee Harvey Oswald (the man who shot JFK), Marina Oswald Porter, is still alive and living in Texas. She still believes that he was innocent of the assassination.
6EQrQ TIL the Finnish Air Force Academy still uses a swastika on its flag, as this kind of cross was used by the Sami shamans in pre-Christian Finland in relation with Horagalles, the Thunder God
8yda TIL of Robert Smalls; an escaped slave who captured and sailed a Confederate ship to the Union with 8 enslaved families, including his. He was awarded today’s equivalent of $34,000 for commandeering the ship, won a seat in the House of Representatives, and purchased his former slavemaster’s house.