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TIL Iggy Azalea came up with her stage name using the porn star formula. Iggy being her dog’s name, and azalea being the street she grew up on.

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pyx4 TIL there are only 6 people left on earth who were born in the 1800s
8av9K TIL Conrad Heyer is the earliest born person to be photographed. He was born in 1749 and sat for a photo in 1852 at age 103. He is the only known photographed revolutionary war soldier to have crossed the Delaware with George Washington.
gMnXW TIL In 1975, a cat named F.D.C. Willard co-authored a physics paper that would become influential and often-cited because the author did not want to change the pronoun "we" that had been used throughout the paper. F.D.C. Willard went on to be the sole author of another paper in 1980.
0wDM5 TIL: Hitler considered Islam to be much more compatible with Germany than Christianity
Zp7dD TIL of Tetragametic Chimerism, which occurs when a woman is pregnant with twins and one embryo dies, and the other embryo absorbs the twin's cells. Also it's potential impact on DNA tests, which lead to Lydia Fairchild being accused of fraud and not being the biological mother of her children.