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TIL that still today 50% of marriages are arranged worldwide.

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Eg6lp TIL human chimerism is a rare occurrence in which a person has 2 sets of DNA. The rarest kind is caused by fraternal twins that fuse together when they are only a clump of cells in size.
GAAD5 TIL That no species of centipede has exactly 100 legs
gM7Xy TIL that Shirley Temple witnessed the Soviet invasion of Prague following Prague Spring, later becoming ambassador to Czechoslovakia.
eKPL TIL That when the movie “The Rock” premiered on Alcatraz in 1996 a man windsurfed to the island wearing a wing-collar tuxedo shirt and bow tie, and then snuck into the celebrity party. He claimed to have already had a cocktail with Sean Connery by the time he was caught.
0wwnL Hard to know, says Will Harcourt- Smith, an expert on early-human fossils at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.