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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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MeY6b TIL there's a city in Texas called Cut and Shoot, supposedly named after a boy shouted "I'm going to cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes in a minute!" during an altercation.
P6Wn TIL For each episode of his show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives host Guy Fieri invites a family from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. For 363 episodes, he’s made it a point to ensure the whole family’s is invited, not just the child battling an illness. “We don’t want to single a kid out,” he explained.
j4GR TIL that Rod Serling, creator and narrator of The Twilight Zone, co-wrote the film adaptation of The Planet of the Apes. He is the one responsible for the famous twist at the end.
VMknG TIL in 1998, Marvel offered the cinematic rights of almost all of it's characters to Sony for a mere $25 million. Sony rejected the offer, and only purchased the rights to Spiderman for $10 million believing that movie audiences would only care about him.
reaw TIL Jay Jackson (Perd Hapley from Parks and Rec) was an award winning newscaster in real life before getting into acting where he would mainly play… a newscaster/reporter.