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TIL that in 1726, an Englishwoman from Surrey tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits

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4Xm6o TIL the small elephant hawk moth (Deilephila porcellus) gets its common name for the caterpillar head's resemblance to an elephant's trunk. Hawk moths are also known as sphinx moths because the caterpillar resembles the Great Sphinx of Giza when resting. They are found in Europe and northern Africa.
LQxdv TIL that Indeed.com is owned by a Japanese Company called Recruit Holdings Co. This is the same company that was involved in the infamous "Recruit Scandal," which was an insider trading and corruption scandal that forced many prominent Japanese politicians to resign in late 1980s including a PM.
dDLA9 TIL it took Marilyn Monroe 47 takes to film the line "it's me sugar" in Some Like It Hot.
64dQ TIL Thomas Jefferson became interested in Indian burial mounds near his Virginia home and decided to excavate them and record his findings. His use of trenching and stratigraphy make it the first Archaeological dig in North America
nKGY TIL there’s a disorder called ‘Capgras delusion’ in which a person holds a delusion that a close friend, spouse, parent or family member has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.