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TIL That Seahorses Lack A Stomach & Need To Constantly Eat To Stay Living

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QJE8E 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!
1aAy8 TIL of Caligula, an emperor of the Roman Empire. His short 4 year long reign consisted of him trying to make his horse a consul, calling himself a god, committing incest, and declaring war on the sea, having his men collect shells from the English Channel and return to Rome to celebrate victory.
a8Ney TIL that after the Papal States were lost and Rome was annexed to Italy in 1870, the Pope became a self-imposed prisoner within the Vatican. This situation lasted until the Lateran Treaty in 1929, which established Vatican City as an independent sovereign entity.
9wk7Q TIL tomb raiding is a big problem in China that looters sometimes find historically significant sites first. For instance the tomb of the famed 3 Kingdoms-era general, Cao Cao, was discovered in 2008 after police inspected the stolen goods of a bunch of robbers, who then led them to an unknown tomb.
V5oD TIL that after being shown films showing the atrocities of the Holocaust, some German POW’s in the US volunteered to fight for America against Japan during WWII.