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TIL Molly Gibson was an embryo for 28 years before being born in 2020 (frozen in 92)

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XErLk TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn't sew or replace buttons.
x6vy5 TIL in Waco Texas, 1916, a black 17 year old was severely mutilated and burned alive while 10-15,000 people watched and cheered. One man held his young son on his shoulder so he could see.
KXO9 TIL that Capitan, the German shepherd, has slept on his owner’s grave for six years. Strangest part: He was never showed the gravesite, he found it himself.
6xw TIL that the combined wealth of the world’s richest 1000 people is almost twice as much as the world’s poorest 2.5 billion
4kXM5 TIL National Lampoon released a full length parody of Frank Herbert’s Dune - called Doon, the dessert planet. Giant pretzels replaced sand worms and the most valuable substance was beer, not spice