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TIL you can get pregnant while being pregnant

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R57g7 TIL about The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law - an Austro-Hungarian satire party whose platform included mandatory alcoholism and reintroducing the Inquisition
KOOV9 TIL Woody Harrelson’s father once confessed to being a gunman in the JFK assassination
M7QJK TIL An American firm wrote to the Beatles asking if they could market the Beatles' bath water at a dollar a bottle. They refused the offer.
neLmG TIL that the worst all-time storm (wind speed) is Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, 2013 (aka Yolanda). No other storm got to 315km/h (195mph) and sustained it for 1 minute. Damage included ~8,000 dead and missing people. Post-storm, some regions were on the brink of Anarchy and looting was common.
YVnP TIL In 1937 psychic, Wolf Messing, predicted that Adolf Hitler would die if he ever threatened Russia, which angered Hitler and caused Messing to flee to Russia. He was then forced to prove himself for Stalin by convincing a bank teller to give him cash using only a blank piece of paper.