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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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6ebX TIL that in France in Sept. 1944, Technician Robert D. Maxwell threw himself on a grenade to save his fellow soldiers. Though badly injured, he survived and was awarded the Medal of Honor.
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