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TIL A single mother hires an actor to be her daughter's father...still ongoing for 10 years now

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RoGj TIL that the US almost passed a bill to fill its rivers with hippos as a source of meat.
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rRWZd TIL that Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane was invited to the White House for a tea party in 1969 and planned to spike President Nixon's tea with 600 micrograms of LSD. The plan was thwarted by White House security.
dZAB TIL: Ryan Holle - Sentenced to life in prison for loaning his car to a friend who he thought was getting them fast food. Let’s help him become a free man again!
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