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TIL that in 2006, two women named Madeleine Mores (who claimed to have never met each other) both claimed to have the same identity along w/ corroborating birth certificates and govt documentation. When presented with a photograph of them together from the 1940’s, neither remembered it being taken.

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x6aBB TIL Clint Eastwood served as the mayor of a city in California
p8aMb TIL that the Greenland shark is deemed biologically immortal. With the estimated life span of up to a 500 years, reaching sexual maturity at around 150 years of age, the Greenland shark is the longest living vertebrate on the planet. Not a single specimen has been observed dying from old age.
wLnEJ TIL in 1947, chess grandmaster Miguel Najdorf played a record 45 simultaneous games of blindfolded chess. He had no way of contacting any friends or family who might have survived the Holocaust, and broke the record in hopes they might see the news coverage. The record stood for 64 years.
9dQX TIL: We have Motion-induced blindness (just stare at the dot in the middle for 10 sec)
OoP5e TIL about a woman who donated her kidney to her boss and was subsequently fired when she took too long to recover after the surgery