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TIL Chris Rock snuck a 15 yo make a wish kid a copy of Pamela Anderson’s sex tape [@12:33]

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XjJD TIL that at the start of the 19th century an estimated ¾ of all living people were kept against their will either in some form of slavery or serfdom
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