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TIL that due to a now banned fertility treatment, there are 30-50 people in the world that each have three biological parents.

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aDK0 TIL Scots didn’t wear kilts until three centuries after the period depicted by the film “Braveheart.”
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0wOjM TIL of Operation Bernhard, a Nazi plan to collapse the British economy by airdropping fake bank notes over England. The program produced up to 300 million Pounds, including £100,000 notes.
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