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TIL China loosened it’s ‘One Child Policy’ in 2013, allowing couples to have two children if either parent is an only child.

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b99x4 We might be too deep in our slumber to do so.
5a7B TIL that in 1983, the average life expectancy for a person with Down Syndrome was only 25 years old. It is now 60 years old.
eaPD TIL that there is a siren for the Holocaust Remembrance Day that literally stops everyone in their tracks
m1xAO TIL Ted Turner created his own alternative to the Olympics, the Goodwill Games, and Turner believed international sporting competitions would prevent future wars. The Games lasted from 1986 to 2001 and featured the first major international beach volleyball event.
AVnd TIL Julian Assange has been stuck in the Ecuadorian embassy longer than his maximum prison sentence would be, should he have been convicted in Sweden.