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TIL : The orphaned children of executed spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were adopted by the man who wrote the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit"

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vwmL TIL The United States of America has nuked inside it’s own borders at least 988 times. That’s only slightly less than the number of nuclear weapon tests conduct by the rest of the world combined at ~1,011.
XwER TIL Production of the film Gone Girl was shut down for four days when Ben Affleck refused to wear a NY Yankees cap in a scene.
yVOZl TIL in 2008 a man woke up unable to breathe so he performed a self-tracheotomy with a steak knife. It was the second time he'd done it.
Er5W TIL before we banked blood in the U.S., the first human body product to be “banked” was breast milk in 1910
B08d TIL that Facebook and Instagram have an irrevocable, unlimited license to sell your photos, location, personal details and metadata - that’s everything you share on their services. Sharing your professional photographs means that you’re not the sole OWNER of the photo; they can sell it too.