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TIL Billie Eilish’s mother, American actress Maggie Baird, voiced Samara in Mass Effect 2

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nWBB9 TIL prostitution is legal in Australia
nWJlo TIL of Abe Reles, a New York Jewish mobster who became a government informant on Murder, Inc. After falling out of a window to his death, newspapers dubbed him "The Canary Who Could Sing, But Couldn't Fly".
xVKwo TIL that giant tarantulas sometimes keep tiny frogs as "pets". They protect the frog safe from predators, while the frog eats tiny insects (ants, etc.) that could harm its eggs.
4XwOJ TIL that Queen Elizabeths grandfather, King George V, was euthanized by his physician. The physician wrote in his journal that he euthanized the King so that his death would be announced in the morning newspapers, rather than the "less appropriate evening journals".
jrXN TIL the Soviets gave the offspring of one of their space dogs to JFK’s daughter Caroline during the Cold War in 1961, which went on to have pups with an American dog that JFK jokingly dubbed ‘pupniks’