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TIL in 1973, two babies [one from an identical twins & one from single birth] were accidentally switched at birth in Gran Canaria, Spain. The mistake was discovered 28 years later. A friend of one of the twins was working in a shopping center in Las Palmas, the other identical twin came in to buy.

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xw5g TIL flaming pigs were used in ancient warfare as a countermeasure against war elephants.
0PwA TIL that Mr Rodgers, when receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Daytime Emmys, asked his audience to take “ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are”, causing many to cry.
e1LJ TIL Koalas spend 99% of their time eating and sleeping, the other 1% is spent searching for a mate, where they wander around aimlessly until they find one. If they don’t find one eventually they give up and just go back to sleep
loXOG TIL of the theory that the "monster under the bed" is an evolutionary leftover from our hunter/gatherer days. "children would fear bedtime because of the threat of wild animals."
b9kNa TIL that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, France was conscripting men shorter than five feet (1.5 m) tall.