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TIL it is less expensive to adopt a black baby in the US because they are “less desirable”

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OG6G4 TIL Corporal Nand Singh earned the Victoria Cross in WW2. He captured 3 trenches, killing soldiers with his bayonet despite wounds. He earned another medal in 1947, capturing a bunker by killing enemy with his bayonet. The Pakistanis threw his body in a garbage dump, never to be recovered.
J1bQl TIL That Norbert Grupe,aka Vigo the Carpathian from Ghostbusters 2, died homeless from prostate cancer in 2004. He was also a boxer with 24 KO’s.
rNyrM TIL: Just last year in 2023 , the Great Kentucky Hoard was found, adding proof to the age old claims of lost Civil War gold caches. It consisted of verified 800 Civil War coins most of them gold. The person who discovered it hid his identity and where exactly he unearthed them.
eprXb TIL Keke Rosberg won the Formula One World Championship in 1982 despite winning only one race.
R71Ga TIL that tin has ten natural isotopes, the most of any element