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TIL that actually men's genes create the placenta

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DQaYe TIL A 30 year old woman in Nazi occupied Norway was struck by shrapnel and developed a strong German accent causing her to be shunned in the first recorded case of Foreign Accent Syndrome.
NX77P TIL Osama Bin Laden was an anime fan and played pirated Naruto games
4BY6 TIL that Bernie Tiede was released from his life sentence in prison in May on the condition that he stay in Austin, TX and live with the filmmaker of ‘Bernie’.
nyMb TIL that the word “Amazon” in ancient Greek means “without a breast”, referring to the legend that Amazons (strong, independent women warriors) cut off their right breasts so as not to interfere with use of a bow.
neZb9 TIL Napoleon divorced his wife, Josephine, due to her being unable to produce an heir. However, he insisted she retain the Empress title and they remained on good terms. Napoleon's last words before dying were, "France, the Army, the Head of the Army, Joséphine."