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TIL that in 2013 a Manhattan dad was deemed “wholly incapable” of parenting his 4-year-old son because he refused to take him to McDonald’s.

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ADNvo TIL about Esperanto, an attempt from 1887 to create an internationally spoken language. It's supposedly 5 times easier to learn than English or German and makes learning other languages easier. It's also available on Duolingo.
Na4M TIL Scenes in the movie Terminator 2, where Sarah Connor and the T-1000’s facsimile of her are in the same shot aren’t CGI. Rather, it is Lina Hamilton and her non-actress identical twin sister, Leslie Hamilton, who acts as a very realistic body double.
XEBJR TIL of a Congressman who, while defending a murder suspect, accidentally killed himself while recreating a scenario where the victim could have accidentally killed himself. The defendant was acquitted
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