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TIL: There is a method being tested to allow female same-sex couples to have children that are 100% biologically “theirs”.

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bEN TIL that Doctor Who actor John Barrowman almost got the role of Will in Will & Grace but he lost the part because the producers thought he was “too straight”. Barrowman is gay and Eric McCormack, who got the part, is straight.
loAy7 TIL during the 1930s, George Ross Gyssling was Hitler’s man in Hollywood, placed there to ensure studios complied with the Führer and the suggested cuts or risk anti-Nazi themed films being barred in Germany. But unbeknown to his bosses, he was a double agent passing valuable intelligence to US
7Ky7 TIL that for twenty years, the US nuclear launch code was ‘00000000’
KA9w TIL that Roger Ebert wrote three movies, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Up! and Beyond the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens. All skin flicks,
4keoa TIL that the UK has 5x more giant redwoods than California, mostly thanks to Victorians importing the seeds. 200 years later, the redwoods are beginning to dwarf native British trees, despite still being in their “sapling” stage.