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TIL the languages of Hawaii and Madagascar are related

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JYm0B TIL a woman gave birth to her own grandchild. 61-year old Cecile Eledge served as the gestational surrogate for her son and his husband, carrying to term a baby created from her son's sperm and her son's sister-in-law's egg. “I just never hesitated,” Eledge said. “It was unconditional love."
5YJ9r TIL that Abraham Lincoln, at 32, fell into a depression so profound that his friends feared he might kill himself, because of the injustice he felt he had done to his wife by having a love affaire with another woman. Lincoln: "I am now the most miserable man living. ... I must die or be be better"
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kJrmg TIL: People Use Wasp Spray “wasp dope” as a Drug