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TIL 2026 Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu was conceived using an anonymous egg donor and carried by a gestational surrogate

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OaGX TIL there is a four year old hippo and a 130 year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve that are best friends. The sleep and play together
o758 TIL there is a theatre company that reenacts the last moments of doomed flights by acting out the cockpit voice recordings.
R5Jrl TIL that Jack Kirby, co-creator of Captain America, the X-Men, and the Hulk, also worked as production designer for "Turbo Teen"—a 1984 Saturday morning cartoon about a teenager who could transform into a sports car.
KOnnJ TIL of Stanley Hollis, the only British soldier to earn a Victoria cross medal for his actions on dday. He fought on multiple fronts during the war, killed hundreds of enemy troops, took out a tiger tank single-handed and on dday took out 2 pill boxes and captured multiple prisoners single-handed.
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