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TIL Pedro Pascal’s parents returned to Chile in 1995 after his father Dr. Jose P. Balmaceda was accused of stealing fertility patients' eggs and embryos and implanting them in other women without their knowledge and consent.

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j0yR TIL The Count of Monte Cristo has never been out of print in most modern languages
8aNw8 TIL about Bayard Rustin, an openly gay black man who advised Martin Luther King Jr. on the principles of nonviolence, was a major civil rights leader, and was the main organizer of the March On Washington. He has been largely forgotten (especially relative to other activists) due to his sexuality.
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78wlL TIL Stephen Hawking completed a final multiverse theory explaining how mankind might detect parallel universes just 10 days before he died
NXQJE TIL in 2014 Meryl Streep attacked Walt Disney for being “a bigot” while presenting the Best Actress award to Emma Thompson for “Saving Mr. Banks”, a Disney film about Walt Disney. Streep referenced a rejection letter in 1938 from Disney informing a female applicant that “girls are not considered”.