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TIL that Washington DC’s violent crime rates dramatically rose after banning handguns

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d8wEd TIL that while the Eagles were recording their Hotel California album, they had to stop recording "on numerous occasions" because Black Sabbath was in the same studio, and were so loud the sound was coming through the walls.
JYm0B TIL a woman gave birth to her own grandchild. 61-year old Cecile Eledge served as the gestational surrogate for her son and his husband, carrying to term a baby created from her son's sperm and her son's sister-in-law's egg. “I just never hesitated,” Eledge said. “It was unconditional love."
OoGVX TIL strangulation can be deadly even days or weeks after the event occurs and significant internal damage can have few outward signs or bruises.
b9EYN TIL Bald eagle nests can be 13 feet deep, and 8 feet wide, and can weigh more than 1 ton.
Lk4ym TIL that residents of Wheeler, Virginia live closer to 9 different state capitals (KY, WV, TN, GA, SC, IN, OH, NC, AL) than they do to their own (Richmond, 411 miles away).