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TIL in the 19th century, there was a French woman who had a breast on her left thigh. After she gave birth it began producing milk. She was able to use all three of her breasts to breastfeed her children.

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wLOb7 TIL the largest lynching in America was of Italian Americans in New Orleans due to the police chief using a racial slur to identify his murderer, all accused were acquitted or suffered a mistrial and sent back to prison to await further charges only for it to be stormed by vigilantes that night.
WkVlA TIL: A professional big game hunter died during a hunt when a member of his group fired at a storming elephant cow and the animal fell on him.
d8RJQ TIL a Colombian footballer was murdered after scoring an own goal, knocking Colombia out of the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The next day, a BBC commentator for another match remarked, “the Argentine defender warrants shooting for a mistake like that”.
LNXd TIL that among captured and confessed terrorists, engineers and engineering students are significantly overrepresented.
9Y8OQ TIL that by suppressing the expression of certain genes specifically for beak development, scientists were able to grow a chicken embryo with a dinosaur-like snout instead of a beak