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TIL: Amniotic fluid dries into a fern pattern on a slide on its own without anything added to it

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5YYyR TIL that there are only 5 people left who are relatives from hitler. 3 of whom chose not to have kids or get married to kill off the bloodline.
5VgK8 TIL Corelle's dishware before 2005 has very HIGH amounts of lead in it
AAQw TIL it is still legal to kill Scots in the English city of York, as long as they are carrying a bow and an arrow
X0Am8 TIL in 1925, a forger convinced Portugal's money printer to make him 200,000 bills, worth ~1% of Portugal's GDP. They were easily laundered, since they weren't actually counterfeit. To cover his tracks, he started buying a controlling interest in the Bank of Portugal, but was caught. He was 28.
xV4Rw TIL balding men don't actually lose hair; the hairs just become progressively smaller until they are microscopic, the same way they are at birth.