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TIL Bob Marley could have halted the spred of his cancer but refused to have his toe amputated for religious reasons

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e07mJ TIL Candace Newmaker, a child with "behavioral problems," was taken from her birth parents, adopted, and placed in controversial "rebirth therapy"... she was suffocated for 70 minutes and declared brain-dead afterwards
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