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TIL a woman gave birth to a “mummy baby” after 46 years of being pregnant.

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6Edom TIL it is illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland. These animals need social interaction and can die of loneliness so an animal rights bill in 2008 required owners to have more than one. There are also rent-a-guinea-pig services for those who want to rent a friend for their pet.
Ypaad TIL that the world's first hard drive was larger than a refrigerator and could hold only 5 MB of storage
Lvvv TIL Valve originally approached Microsoft and other companies to create a game client with features like auto-updating and a better anti-cheat system but were refused. So Valve developed it themselves and made Steam.
awQlN TIL between 2000 and 2001 Tesco was the subject of a letter bomb campaign from a person who demanded that the company's loyalty card be modified to enable withdrawing money from ATMs.
xn4w TIL that one of the least-remembered US Presidents, Millard Fillmore, was effectively sold as a child by his destitute father into a kind of indentured servitude (bordering on child slavery). He eventually bought himself from his master for $30 and walked 100 miles to his home at age 14