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TIL: Enrique Iglesias's grandfather conceived a child who was born 7 months after he died, at age 90

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4XoJN TIL of Mettigel, a German dish prepared by garnishing raw pork to look like a hedgehog.
NBYe TIL There’s a French delicacy that involves blinding a small bird and force feeding it before you drown in Cognac. It is then eaten in one bite with a napkin over the face to preserve the aroma.
aL4N TIL President James Garfield was ambidextrous and fluent in both Latin and Greek, so he would entertain his friends by having them ask him questions and then he would write the answer in Latin with one hand while simultaneously writing the answer in Greek with the other.
9RZX TIL that the British exclusively swam breaststroke in competition until the 19th century. In 1844, a Native American came to London and won a competition swimming front crawl (freestyle), a stroke never seen by the Western world, who then regarded it as “un-European”.
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