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TIL that if a man pees on a pregnancy test and it comes up positive, he may have testicular cancer.

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691a7 TIL 'The Phantom of Heilbronn' was believed to be a female serial killer tied to 40 crimes, six of them murders. However, in 2009, it was discovered that the woman never existed, and her DNA found at crime scenes was just contamination from cotton swabs used for collecting samples.
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