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TIL that, the broadfish tapeworm is the longest tapeworm in humans, averaging ten meters long and that it can shed up to a million eggs a day.

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jWRj TIL Madylyn Murray O'Hair, the Athiest activist who was responsible for prayer being removed from American public schools was, along with a son and granddaughter, murdered, dismembered, and buried on a Texas ranch in the 1990’s after a kidnapping gone wrong.
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