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TIL that there is a waiting list of pro-life advocates to adopt babies with Down Syndrome, AIDS, and other terminal illnesses from anywhere in the world.

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yybw TIL Hugh Hefner, scrapbooking every saturday since high school, has 2685 books completely archiving his life (world record). He says scrapbooking helped him reinvent his life to be more interesting.
epDZb TIL exactly what it means to be “Hanged, drawn and quartered”: “…fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).”
kOBQm TIL In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
7rG9X TIL Steven Spielberg wanted to make the (1999) Medal of Honor game to teach kids about World War II. who couldn't see Saving Private Ryan because of its R rating.
9YXkm TIL: The U.S. government during the Prohibition Era mandated that industrial alcohols receive toxic additives, effectively poisoning supplies of bootleg liquor. At least ten thousand people are estimated to have died due to bootleg alcohol poisoning.