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TIL a Vanishing Twin is when a twin dies in utero and is either completely or partially absorbed by their twin. Occasionally the dead fetus will be flattened by their growing twin into a parchment like state known as Fetus Papyraceus

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45rX TIL of the Ket language. Spoken by 200 people in central Siberia north of Mongolia, it is considered to be in the same language family as Navajo. That would make Ket speakers the only remaining members in Eurasia of the original population that colonized the Americas.
XEX0R TIL that Magda and Joseph Goebbels in the last days of WWII and while confined to the Führerbunker, arranged to have all 6 of their children killed with cyanide as they slept. They believed the children would support their decision to commit suicide if they were old enough to speak for themselves.
GAKvE TIL Pope Benedict XVI was part of the Hitler Youth
vPLB TIL during WWII the US government hired a psychoanalyst to research Hitler’s background and he discovered that Hitler’s father may have been the illegitimate son of a Rothschild, one of the wealthiest Jewish families in the world
9YxoX TIL that the term “Cup Of Joe” is named after Josephus Daniels. Daniels, a former secretary of the US Navy, banned the consumption of alcohol in the Navy. Thus, increasing the consumption of coffee which was referred to as a “a cup of Josephus Daniels” which was later shortened to “a cup of Joe”