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TIL that a woman adopted and murdered over 400 infants in order to make money on adoption fees

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NLYb TIL that there is a place in the Pacific Ocean where Russian satellites used to crash that is called the spacecraft cemetery. The famous Mir space station crashed in this area in 2001.
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