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TIL two identical twins had sex with the same woman on the same day. She got pregnant and there’s no way to tell who the dad is because the DNA test claims both men have over 99% probability that either is the father

ne4yG TIL about one of the rare cases of the Lazarus Syndrome. Walter Williams, 78, from Lexington, Mississippi, declared by a coroner at his home on 26 February 2014. Once at a funeral home, he was found to be moving. The next day he was well enough to be talking with family, but died fifteen days later.
vPvmB TIL Barry Manilow thought "Last Christmas" by Wham! was so similar to his 1978 hit "Can't Smile Without You" that he took George Michael to court. But the case was thrown out after a musicologist presented 60-odd songs from the past century that had a comparable chord sequence and melody.
Eg06w TIL Joaquin's brother, River Phoenix, died outside a club owned by Johnny Depp after doing drugs for several days with the guitar player from RHCP. He was playing in a band Johnny Depp, Flea, and Frusciante were in and had a heart attack in the middle of a song.
XEmMR TIL In 1998, the United States Department of Justice filed suit against Microsoft, in essence claiming that Microsoft included too much functionality in its operating systems and thus prevented application vendors from competing.
mpQR TIL hallucinations can occur in any sensory modality—visual (sight), auditory (sound), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), tactile (touch), equilibrioceptive (balance), nociceptive (harm), thermoceptive (temperature), and chronoceptive (time).