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TIL that women can give birth to twins with different biological fathers (heteropaternal superfecundation). The frequency has not been established, but one study found it occurred in around 1 in every 42 cases of fraternal twins whose parents were involved in paternity disputes.

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Wk6d4 TIL that the bullet that killed the longest confirmed sniper kill in history (3,540 m) flew for 10 second and and was flying for so long that the sniper had to take in the curvature of the Earth into account.
x6aW7 TIL Michael Cleveland became a beast of a fiddle player despite being born blind and with no corpus callosum (connection between the two halves of the brain)
GJEJ TIL of 286 scholarly investigations: 221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses, that demonstrate women are as physically aggressive, or more, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 371,600.
oBGXE TIL Hitler tried to distance himself from Mein Kampf, saying "If I had had any idea in 1924 that I would have become Reich chancellor, I never would have written the book." and dismissing it as "fantasies behind bars".
KOe69 TIL National Dollar Day on August 8th commemorates the day Congress established the U.S. monetary system in 1786. In 1862, the United States printed its first dollar bill. It wasn’t George Washington face, The first dollar bill featured Salmon P. Chase, President Lincoln’s Secretary of Treasury.