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Nasa astronaut twins Scott and Mark Kelly no longer genetically identical after space trip.

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ADY47 TIL that an anonymous Brit drew penises around potholes in Manchester to force authorities to stop delaying fixing them. It worked
xLa5 TIL that in english, the name of every number shares a letter with each neighbor. One shares an O with two, which shares a T with three, which shares an R with four, which shares an F with five, which shares an I with six – and so on indefinitely.
W7LD8 TIL that France and Spain "went to war" over a few stop signs in the 1970s and 1980s when France built two new roads that crossed a Spanish road and installed new stop signs which Spanish citizens continually removed over and over again for years. This became known as the "War of the Stop Signs".
Gxl5 TIL: Redheads can’t absorb sufficient Vitamin D due to low concentrations of eumelanin in their body so instead their body can cleverly produce their own Vitamin D when exposed to low light conditions.
lodxK TIL that there is an actual metal pole that marks the south pole. Aside from the ceremonial pole, there is a much smaller pole that must be replaced regularly to account for changing conditions.