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TIL renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright's houses were famously leaky.

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DwZr TIL that a Dutch athlete was banned from competing (for life) after refusing a sex test in 1950. After her death in 2007, an autopsy discovered a Y chromosome in her DNA, suggesting she was a genetic mosaic…
69E5l TIl that Burger King created a band named Coq Roq, recorded a 4 song LP, and planned a US tour that only fell apart because the Canadian singer had a criminal record
6EVmw TIL people used to iron their newspapers to set the ink. That way they wouldn't turn their fingers black.
GAR04 TIL Siblings separated at birth end up just as similar as siblings reared together (height, weight, IQ, academic performance, general cognitive ability). Parenting account for close to 0% of the variation (although abusive parenting is known to cause problems).
wLMwW TIL that The word ‘oxymoron’ is itself an oxymoron. This is because it derives from Ancient Greek where ‘oxy’ means ‘sharp’ and ‘moros’ means ‘stupid’.