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TIL a married couple in the UK realized they were twins separated at birth

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b6gYZ TIL Chinese jade burial suits could take up to ten years to make and were ordered well in advance of death. Liu Sheng was known as a man who enjoyed good living and by the time he died in 113 BC his stomach had grown so large that another hundred plaques were added.
0wKLA TIL about avant-garde composer John Cage whose most famous work is 4'33". For four minutes and 33 seconds, the musicians do nothing, allowing the audience to hear the environmentals of the performance hall.
Wk4jd TIL that in 1981, three german tourists camped at Buchingham Palace, after mistaking it for a public park.
l77D1 TIL MIT engineers made the first-ever plane with no moving parts by using electricity to ionize air (2018).
v1ml8 TIL that French billionaire Pierre Bernard Papillaud demanded that the city of Weeds in California give up its water source, Beaughan Spring, to his bottled water company Christaline.