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TIL that sea otters hold hands while sleeping to avoid drifting apart.

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GYXJG TIL that before Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide, he helped free a Colorado woman who was convicted of murder despite her being handcuffed in the back of a police car at the time. She would have served a life sentence without parole and was freed just one month after his death.
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