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TIL there is an underground network of Americans who use the internet to abandon adopted children (most adopted from overseas) and this practice is called “adoption distruption” and “private re-homing.”

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Eg6wd TIL Jack Parsons, a pioneer rocket engineer and inventor of the rocket engines later used in the apollo program was also a passionate occultist. One of his rituals, aimed to summon a sex goddess involved Parsons jerking off to magical tablets while listening to a violin concerto
0w6BM TIL that Christopher Plummer hated The Sound of Music. He called it The Sound of Mucus or S&M. During filming, he would get drunk in taverns and ate so much schnapps and pastries, that he got very fat. His costumes had to be let out. He was also “dead drunk” during the music festival scene.
w1mJ TIL That a man named Sir Nicholas Winton organised the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II. Him at a ceremony surrounded by those he saved.[VIDEO]
E1mWd TIL the line "They call me Mr. Pig" in the Lion King is a reference to the 1967 film, In the Heat of the Night
9YwEm TIL that unlike much of its competition, Family Video owns the real estate housing their stores, helping them to avoid unsuccessful lease negotiations that led to the demise of Blockbuster and Movie Gallery, which includes Hollywood Video. Family Video is now the largest rental chain in the U.S.