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TIL that Uber-Facts takes a majority of their posts from r/TodayILearned

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b6voN TIL Country Artist Trace Adkins, having accidentally cut it off himself, had doctors reattach his severed left pinkie finger at an angle that would permit him to continue using it for guitar playing.
ANLdg TIL "Maryland, My Maryland" - the state anthem of Maryland until 2021 - is set to the tune of "O Christmas Tree." There also exist "Michigan, My Michigan," "Florida, My Florida," and "the Song of Iowa" - the current state anthem of Iowa - all set to the same tune.
9YVBG TIL: Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born physicist, discovered that atomic nuclei can be split in half. She and her nephew explained and named nuclear fission in 1939, but the recognition went to Otto Hahn for this discovery. He was granted a Nobel Prize in 1944 in Chemistry.
x664b TIL of Dubay v. Wells (2006), a child support case. Dubay argued he should not have to pay child support for a child he did not want to parent. It was dismissed in appeals. Dubay was asked to appeal to the US Supreme Court, but Dubay declined.
kL9d TIL the Last words of the inventor of Air Conditioner on his death bed were “It’ll be a Cold Day in Hell!”