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TIL a woman tricked doctors into thinking she could give birth to rabbits. She shoved the rabbits into her vagina before ‘birthing’ them

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788R7 TIL that Dolly Parton wrote "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" on the same day. The songs are 50 years old now.
JxGB TIL Margaret Thatcher’s son conspired with a private mercenary company to stage a coup in a West African country for oil money
PaRE TIL that voting is compulsory in Australia. If you do not register to vote, you’re fined. If you’re registered and you don’t vote (without a valid reason), you’re fined.
YpOnZ TIL an actor accidentally slit his own throat on stage while performing a suicide scene in a play based on Mary, Queen of Scots. The prop knife he was supposed to have used had been switched with a real one. If he’d cut a little deeper, he would have died.
pYwGb TIL about Walter Bonatti and Amir Mehdi, forced to spend a night on K2 without a tent because the first ascenders were afraid of being overshadowed. Bonatti upstaged them 4 years later summitting the even harder Gasherbrum IV; Mehdi was maimed by frostbite and never climbed again.