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TIL about sesquizygotic twins, which are neither identical nor fraternal, but a rare middle ground with a split egg and two separate sperm.

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N0Jb TIL: Google successfully tested an automated car that drove 300,000 miles with only one accident, a parking lot fender bender. That occurred when a human was driving.
DQdPY TIL that President Franklin D. Roosevelt never supported First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's anti-lynching campaign for fear of alienating white Democratic voters in the south.
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