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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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BgOWW TIL Supermarionation is a puppetry technique used in 1960s TV classics like Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet. Combining marionettes with synchronized lip movement via solenoid motors, it brought lifelike action and charm to storytelling.
ZMOv TIL that Thora Birch was 16 and therefore considered a minor when she shot her nude scene for “American Beauty.” Her parents and child labor board members monitored the shoot.
ngl9 TIL Vlad the Impaler once asked a noble man if the smell of the impaled corpses bothered him. The man said yes, so Vlad had him impaled on a higher stake to the ‘smell wouldn’t bother him’.
7Ogp TIL Army PFC LaVena Johnson’s 2005 death at a base in Balad, Iraq was ruled a “suicide.” She had a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, burns from corrosive chemicals on her genitals and a gunshot wound.
vPwmR TIL I learned that Andy Weir, author of the Martian, worked at Blizzard Entertainment to make Warcraft II