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TIL the Great Famine of Ireland caused so many deaths, that Ireland’s population still has not recovered (after 150 years)

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YpEZP TIL that the American Red Cross has updated their rules about who can donate blood, now allowing MSM, women who have sex with MSM, and former IV drug users to donate when they had been banned in the past.
XEXjR TIL Stephen Marshall American-Canadian vigilante who searched publicly available Sex offender registries in the United States for the names and addresses of convicted sex offenders before traveling to Maine in the Northeastern United States and murdering two.
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