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TIL, after suffering a severe illness in 1776, Jemimika Wilson claimed to have died and been reanimated as a genderless evangelist named the Public Universal Friend, and afterward shunned both his birth name and gendered pronouns.

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Mexj7 TIL that despite being considered a watershed moment in terms of computer effects in film, there are only 6 minutes of CGI dinosaur screentime "Jurassic Park", less than 5% of its runtime.
LkMGV TIL childless couples from developed countries pay $10,000 to $20,000 for african babies. Most babies are sold by parents or taken from child harvesting (baby farms).
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4X7BX TIL that in 1915, Frank Lloyd Wright's chef snapped and went on a killing spree at his famous house Taliesin
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