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TIL Children of identical twins are genetically siblings not cousins

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kOldm TIL there are only six full-time 'skywriters' left in the world. Skywriters are those who use aircraft to expel special smoke during flight in patterns.
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pYlnO TIL in latter seasons of the 1987 animated TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Michelangelo's nunchaku were replaced with a grappling hook called the "Turtle Line" due to censorship in Europe. Several European countries had banned nunchaku due to violence involving people armed with the weapon.
wxK6 TIL Christoph Waltz received a total of 15 nominations for his roles in Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. He won 11 of these, including the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and the BAFTA Awards for BOTH films.
VVwZ TIL there is a massive amount of water under the Earth’s crust, nearly equal to the mass of all the water in Earth’s oceans.