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TIL that conjugal visits go on in nursing homes.

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rN7v0 TIL Carly Simon is an heiress of Simon & Schuster
gMbP4 TIL that “Hyborian War” is a play-by-mail fantasy game that’s been continuously running since 1985 set in the setting of Conan the Barbarian.
0d6eR TIL That between the introduction of human growth hormone-therapy (using the glands of human cadavers) in the late 1950s and 1977, 226 patients were infected with CJD, a fatal prion disease. Today, we use synthetic growth hormone, which doesn't carry this risk.
8lJG TIL That Beginner’s Luck actually has some basis behind it.
pXMZ TIL during the Napoleanic War a French vessel wrecked off the coast of Hartlepool killing all the crew except for one monkey dressed in a military uniform. The people of Hartlepool having never seen a Frenchman or a monkey before held an impromptu trial for the monkey and sentenced it to death.