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TIL Human females can be impregnated by different males in seperate sexual intercourse during the same ovulation

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4kBMR TIL that there's a condition called Fregoli delusion, where individuals believe that different people they meet are actually the same person in disguise.
0wJBj TIL In 1989, Russian psychic E. Frenkel was run over by a train while attempting to stop it with his psychic-biological power, after previously ‘successfully’ stopping a car and streetcar.
6E6K7 TIL Studies in 'ice cores' found in Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania - the mountain which supplies the Nile with its water - have revealed that a drought did take place around 3600 years ago - around the time the Bible sets Joseph's story in Egypt
PYAZE TIL that copra (dried coconut meat) is capable of spontaneous combustion and is thus forbidden from being transported by air unless express permission is given by a relevant authority.
rZoW TIL elephants can tell the difference between human languages and know which languages belong to people with a history of hurting elephants.