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TIL when Mario Lemieux’s son Austin was born prematurely in 1996, the family spent a lot of time in the hospital with him, and found that older children there had no place to play. Guided by his wife’s Nathalie vision, they set up play rooms across hospitals in the US, opening the 29th one in 2014.

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v1KRK TIL "50% of US marriages end in divorce" statistic is very misleading. In reality, divorce rates peaked in the early 1980s and have been steadily decreasing since then. If current trends continue, only one third of today's marriages will end in divorce.
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16JWr TIL, Students at the Hillcrest Primary School were celebrating their last day of school by jumping inside of a bounce house when a strong gust of wind blew the bounce house 33 feet into the air with the children still inside causing 6 of them to die after falling out.