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TIL that an allergy to Brazilian nuts is the only allergy that can be sexually transmitted through sperm [NSFW]

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Zp5Ra TIL that sea otters hold hands while sleeping to avoid drifting apart.
yQN7l TIL of Kodinhi in India, which has the highest twin rate in the world, with over 400 twins in about 2000 families. Scientists aren't sure of why this is, but it has been observed that even when women of Kodinhi have children with men outside of their village, the twin birth rate is still high.
NXQbe TIL that Batman was created almost at the same time as the Black Bat, a pulp fiction hero so similar that the publishers considered suing each other. They eventually found an agreement: the Black Bat wouldn't appear in comics, and in exchange, Batman wouldn't appear in pulp magazines.
RYw7 TIL that Hitler and Göring already had lists of communists to be arrested long before the 1933 Reichstag fire.
XW7k TIL An American NASA scientist has been in solitary confinement in Turkey for over eight months, the evidence against him being one US dollar bill.