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TIL Phantom of the Opera (the stage show) is available on YouTube as part of #Stay Home

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8aNvL TIL that Eunice Shriver Kennedy, JFKs older sister, founded an athletics camp in 1962 for children with intellectual disabilities. The camp would go on to evolve into the Special Olympics.
Gdv5 TIL that an acronym is if you pronounce letters in the abbreviation as if they were a word. If you read the letters in the abbreviation individually, they are called “initialisms”
XBGR TIL that before the invention of the heart-lung machine, surgeons used “cross circulation” for open heart surgeries - a child was connected to their parent’s heart, which oxygenated the patient’s blood and pumped it back in.
oBNyW TIL of "Project Prevention", a program which pays drug addicts $300 to sterilize themselves. It was begun by a woman who adopted 8 children from drug-addicted mothers.
4k6EJ TIL only about 5% of Americans get their daily recommended value of fiber