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TIL the unique taste of NYC pizza is attributed to the city’s water

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d8GO9 TIL that an "acardiac baby" is a severely malformed parasitic twin stealing circulation from the other twin, which can cause extreme stress on the normal fetus resulting in mortality for both twins
YN1r TIL the head of the Nazi SA “brownshirt” paramilitary group was gay, appointed other gays to prominent Nazi SA positions & was so close to Hitler, he was the only person who called him by nicknames like “Adi” instead of “mein fuhrer”
x69Yg TIL that Super Bowl XXXIV (34) is known as the "Dot-Com Super Bowl" because it featured 14 ads from 14 different dot-com companies, each paying an average of $2.2 million per spot. Of these companies, four are still active, five were bought by other companies, and the remaining five are defunct.
x9Lg TIL Rick Astley once interrupted a Thanksgiving parade in order to perform his very own live Rickroll
BmGb TIL That we kiss under the mistletoe to honour Balder, the Norse God, and brother of Thor.