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TIL there is a retirement home for ageing filmstars

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m14ky TIL that there is an island off the coast of Long Island, New York that has been been privately owned by the same family for 400 years
YpNeZ TIL men who have children before 22 are 73% more likely to die by middle age.
RpO6 TIL the character Alex, a character in South Park that appeared once, in the episode Red Man’s Greed, was voiced by Alex Glick who was the highest bidder at a charity auction to benefit AIDS research
Mm4a TIL ~70% of Cocaine in the U.S. is cut with Levamisole, a toxic Chemo drug used to treat certain invasive cancers, because it looks like cocaine, maintains its consistency, acts as a stimulant, and even passes street purity tests. It lowers the body’s WBCs & Immune System, even in occasional users
Mag7 TIL there is a solar power method that doesn’t involve solar panels, but rather a giant curved mirror focusing all of the light that hits it onto a single point of intersection. A water reservoir is placed where the beams of light intersect, and the resulting steam runs a generator.