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TIL The highest paid WNBA player makes 5 times less than the lowest paid NBA player

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lV01 TIL that in 2002, a woman was denied public assistance because a DNA test showed that her children weren’t hers. An attorney helped her prove that she had absorbed her twin in the womb, thus giving her two sets of DNA, and that her unborn twin was possibly the biological mother of her children.
P6PO TIL beavers wear their teeth down as much as a millimeter per day, but grow continuously at a rate 10x faster than human fingernails.
D1XRe TIL the melody of "Love Me Tender" is taken straight from a civil war ballad
0MR1 TIL that during the Manhattan Project, the emergency nuclear reactor shutdown (SCRAM) mechanism was simply a man with an axe.
N5R1 TIL that a black police officer faced charges for not investigating racial taunts against himself.