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TIL: that in the Caribbean you can have domino's pizza delivered by airplane.

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nenQo TIL A review of decades of research shows children of same-sex couples are doing just as well as kids of heterosexual couples across a number of wellbeing measures, including academic performance, cognitive development, social development, and psychological health.
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