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TIL pornstar Mia Khalifa who was born in Lebanon, was actually raised as a very conservative Catholic.

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e0Pg TIL there is a Son of Sam law designed to keep criminals from profiting from the publicity of their crimes, and first used against the serial killer David Berkowitz
N7BV1 TIL after "the world’s largest beach clean-up" at Mumbai's Versova beach, Olive Ridley turtles returned to lay eggs for the first time in 20 years.
9YV67 TIL that the man who patented the ouija board has a ouija board headstone.
78N5x TIL that Amtrak is an independent agency of the US federal government
Z81xp TIL the old man who died in the Mt St Helens eruption was once sunk by a U-boat, smuggled booze, threw his ex-wife into a lake during arguments, got park rangers drunk, impersonated game wardens, assaulted taxmen, hated hippies, chased off a Supreme Court Justice and died with his cats on a volcano