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TIL around 6% of humans have a third nipple

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4kpx6 TIL that, in 2022, a man died in a single vehicle car accident when the knife he was using to mix protein powder while driving was propelled into his neck by the force of his deployed air bag.
OgR6 TIL that during WWII, the Japanese invaded Alaska, and more Americans were killed or wounded defending Alaska than at Pearl Harbor.
W8lN TIL 4% of the sand on Normandy beaches is made up of shrapnel from D-Day landings, broken down over the decades into sand-sized chunks.
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.
GWl7 TIL that in the 1960’s a woman lived together with a dolphin in a partially flooded house for 10 weeks as part of an experiment to teach it to speak. The lengthy experiment finally involved her masturbating the dolphin and tripping on LSD with it.