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TIL in that Rick Steves, popular travel show host, constructed a 24-unit apartment complex in Lynnwood, Washington, to serve as transitional housing for homeless mothers and their children; he is also on the advisory board of NORML, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

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