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TIL: 60 to 80 percent of marriages among professional athletes end in divorce.

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yQBZV TIL most of the caffeine in soft drinks is actually synthetically produced in Chinese pharmaceutical plants
W7rdo TIL In 1995, a boy was discovered with blood containing no trace of his father’s DNA due to an extremely rare case of partial human parthenogenesis, where the mother’s egg cell divided just prior to fertilization, making parts of his body genetically fatherless.
x6M7b TIL that Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice Roosevelt was dubbed "Princess Alice" by the society press of New York.
Zp1o TIL A British toddler was born with an extra strand of DNA
6OJX TIL that radioactive wild boars are wreaking havoc in towns nearby the Fukushima nuclear power plant, causing an estimated $15million in damage.