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TIL: Spirit Halloween stores are owned by Spencers

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nWoQo TIL: 70% of hearing parents of deaf children never learn sign language.
R5KYw TIL the battleship in Cher's 1989 music video "If I Could Turn Back Time" is the USS Missouri, the site of the official Japanese surrender in WWII
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