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TIL that fetuses were observed crying in the womb for the first time in 2005

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grZvD TIL: Plants uptake prions from contaminated soil and transmit it to animals
0wvZN TIL when the Vatican Archives published records on the Templar Order, it showed that the Inquisition had discovered the Templars were not heretics, but in fact a knighthood for homosexuals. The Pope decided to close the knighthood "for the good of the church" when this discovery was made.
X0kgD TIL the construction of the Equitable Building in Manhattan and the controversy surrounding it led New York City to adopt the 1916 Zoning Resolution, the first of its kind in the U.S.
4k6eR TIL A Nigerian city Igbo-Ora has such a high amount of identical twins to the point where there is an annual festival celebrating twins, with over 1,000 pairs of them in attendance
xVQY1 TIL that an infant king in 16th century Hungary was kept alive by being placed inside recently slain animal corpses, a primitive form of incubator.