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TIL that Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka each fertilized one egg from their set of twins, both eggs took, and they have no interest in finding out which child they are the biological father to

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8B9X TIL the United States has had a legally declared “state of emergency” almost continuously from 1950 to this day
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