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TIL that 1 in 8 people who have ever lived are alive today

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lolMG TIL in 1961 a puppy from one of the first dogs to survive a trip into space was given to Carolyn Kennedy as a gift from Nikita Khrushchev
kJPdm TIL in the late 1990s, a Paraguayan girl emerged from a coma; when given a wish, she chose a trip to Ohio to see the Hayes Presidential Center.
0yp TIL Britney Spears has been under “conservatorship” by her father since 2008, meaning he is in charge of all her legal and financial decisions, something that is usually used on for people with Alzheimer’s or severe mental illness
KZm6 TIL that although lead paint was recognized as toxic as early as 1897 and banned by the League of Nations in 1922, the US did not ban lead paint until 1971.
NX6d6 TIL, though released a month earlier, the Movie "My Blue Heaven" is a loose sequel to "Goodfellas". The screenwriter Nora Ephron based Steve Martin's Character on Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta in Goodfellas). She was also married to the Writer the book "Goodfellas" was based on, Nicholas Pileggi.