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TIL The chances of cracking open a double-yolked egg are 1/1000.

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yVKbX TIL of William Sidis who was raised by his father, a psychologist, to prove that extreme intelligence can be learned. He entered Havard a 11, spoke 25 languages including his own and published in various different topics. He might have been the smartest person to have ever lived.
yAmp TIL humans usually get the urge to pee when the bladder is just 1/3 full. But in zero gravity, the urge doesn’t kick in till the bladder is almost completely full. When John Glenn orbited the Earth, his only urination was 27 ounces, seven ounces more than the capacity of the avg human bladder.
xVxB0 TIL that Thomas Edison Jr., unlike his famous father, was a terrible inventor. Eventually, he resorted to selling snake oil like the "Edison Magno-Electric Vitalizer", embarrassing his father so much that he was given an allowance of 900 dollars a week to stop marketing his own "inventions".
KOJNR TIL Bullfighting was banned in Catalonia (Spain) in 2012, but the ban was annulled in 2016 for being unconstitutional by the highest court.
9vOr TIL Attila the Hun invaded Rome since the Emperor’s sister did not want to be married to a senator and asked for his help.