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TIL a woman gave birth to her own grandchild. 61-year old Cecile Eledge served as the gestational surrogate for her son and his husband, carrying to term a baby created from her son's sperm and her son's sister-in-law's egg. “I just never hesitated,” Eledge said. “It was unconditional love."

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J1npB TIL 10-20% of the world's population have allergies to cats or dogs. Even other animals, such as rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, ferrets and horses, can cause allergy symptoms.
XR86 TIL that the most difficult math course in the world is simply called Math 55. It is so challenging that in 1970, of the 75 students that enrolled in the class, 55 dropped out. Bill Gates is one of the more prominent alumni to have passed the class.
b9pj TIL This is the first known painting by Salvador Dali. Which he painted when he was SIX years old.
p8xyO TIL that eating uncooked squid without removing the Spermatophores can inseminate your mouth with squid sperm that bite and give a stinging sensation.
4Ly6 TIL A South African IT company preferred to use a pigeon to transport a 4GB flash drive over 80 km (50 mi) instead of using the country’s biggest ISP’s ADSL. Including downloading, it took two hours for the data to arrive, the same amount of time it took to tranfer 4% of the data over the ADSL.