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TIL: Nearly 150 babies were named Khaleesi in 2012.

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kJ767 TIL of chinese warlord Zhang Zōngchāng, aka Old Eighty-Six due to a rumor that his erect member was as long as a stack of 86 mexican silver dollars, which were a common currency in 1920’s China.
mMXR TIL Muhammad Ali was against interracial relationships.
v1gBx TIL Reasoning Is Sharper in a Foreign Language
pDjZ TIL Chaplin was once forced to pay child support for a child that wasn’t even his. When a young woman claimed that her child was Chaplin’s, blood testing determined that the child was not Chaplin’s, but the judge refused to have the test admitted into court, so he made Chaplin pay a substantial sum.
v1JZR TIL Kodhini, a tiny village in India's southern state of Kerala, has a surprisingly high twins birth rate — 42 of every 1000 births, almost six times as high as the global average of around 6 per 1000 births. No genetic or environmental factor has been ascertained to this phenomenon yet.