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TIL a pair of (otherwise) identical twins was conceived where one twin had Down syndrome and the other did not

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A9dg TIL James Randi said that after he is gone he does not want his fans to bother with a museum of magic named after him or burying him in a fancy tomb. Instead, he said, “I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller’s eyes.”
pxa4 TIL in ‘91, 8 people were sealed inside a 3 acre dome. The sealed structure housed 7 ecosystems: ocean, desert, savannah, rainforest, marsh, an area of intensive agriculture and a human habitat. The project was designed to see whether humans could survive and adapt.
8G4V TIL On the show Archer, the character Doctor Krieger is not a doctor at all. According to ISIS records, his legal first name is Doctor
Mp9b TIL Less than one percent of the worlds shipwrecks have been discovered with an estimated 3 million ships lying on the ocean floor.
neP9W TIL the first film to use a special effect was a reenactment of the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots