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TIL Millie and Christine McKoy Were Conjoined Twins Born Into Slavery

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mxM8R TIL that Saddam Hussein once pranked his guests by adding tabasco to koftas he cooked for them- some of the panicked guests initially fearing that the paranoid dictator had poisoned them.
rQbM TIL memes mocking famous people are banned in Russia
EVgx TIL there is a plant that is able to simultaneously produce both tomatoes and potatoes, cleverly named the “Ketchup ‘n’ Fries” plant
rNNNM TIL why brain size doesn't correlate with intelligence. People have long been tempted to link brain size and cognition. The intuitive notion that a “big brain” means “more intelligent” was first threatened some time ago, when we discovered animals with larger brains than ours: elephants and whales.
1kl4 TIL that German luxury brand, Hugo Boss AG, in 1934-1935 advertised itself as the, “supplier of national socialist uniforms” In 1946, its founder, Hugo Boss, was fined 70k and stripped of his voting rights for being a beneficiary of Nazism.