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TIL Nikola Tesla still has inventions classified by the US government.

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78Lex TIL that identical twins have a unique DNA signature that lasts a lifetime, and scientists can now tell if someone was originally conceived as a twin.
9wWm TIL: In Churchill, Manitoba residents leave car doors open so passing people can jump in the presence of a polar bear.
9YR8X TIL there was a Battle of Thermopylae in WWII, which featured outnumbered New Zealand troops holding off a larger Nazi formation at the cost of horrendous casualties
rRPQy TIL that at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, where John Wilkes Booth is buried, visitors often leave pennies (which feature President Lincoln's face) on the Booth family monument.
kYAW TIL cilantro tastes like “soap” to some people, and it is most-likely a genetically inherited trait