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TIL A sperm donor in Kansas is being force to pay child support for a lesbian couple that doesn’t want him to pay child support

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BRRD TIL the earth was hit by an intense radiation burst of unknown cause between 774 and 775 AD.
95JD TIL most of the money George Clooney makes off his Nespresso commercials, he spends on a satellite that surveils Sudanese war criminal and dictator Omar al-Bashir.
nKw9 TIL a term for gay used to be “Friend of Dorothy”. In the 80s , the Navy believed that there actually was some woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel, so they launched an enormous and futile hunt for the elusive “Dorothy”.
r9O0 TIL the Berlin Wall was torn down by mistakenly-empowered citizens after an East German spokesman misspoke at a press conference and mentioned immediate border crossing privileges for every citizen.
PYakn TIL that University of Washington engineers have designed the first battery-free cellphone that can send and receive calls using only a few microwatts of power.