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TIL Danny Trejo has a cookbook
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TIL in 2006 a Washington woman filed for public assistance and was taken to court because 4 different maternity tests claimed she was not the true mother of her children. Turns out she had absorbed her twin in the womb and her reproductive organs have different DNA than the rest of her body!
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TIL that Haiti, cholera free for > 100 years, suffered an extreme outbreak after Nepalese UN relief workers dumped raw sewage into a stream. Hundreds of thousands sickened, around 10,000 dead and cholera is now endemic in the nation.
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TIL the last Boer war veteran died in 1993 aged 111 years old
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TIL the highest troop concentration in the history of counter-insurgency warfare was not in Iraq, or Afghanistan, but in Ireland, where the British stationed 20 troops for every 1000 civilians during the peak of The Troubles
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TIL half-moons on fingernails and toenails (lunala) disappear with age.