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TIL in 2003, instead of regular interviews, a magazine gave every San Francisco mayoral candidate the replicant test from Blade Runner

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X0EaD TIL that the Guinness World Records title for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive is held by nonuplets from Mali. There are only two other recorded cases of nonuplets in the world ever, in Australia (1971) and in Malaysia (1999), which all the babies died.
gmOy TIL that the Ukrainian Navy had Dolphins equipped with Pistols on their heads.
jLJE TIL that during the Atlantic slave trade era, Brazil imported more slaves than any other country, and that Brazil was the last country in the Western world to abolish slavery.
N7mQb TIL in 2014 four black bears in New Hampshire were found dead of heart failure after eating 90 pounds of chocolate and donuts placed at a bait site.
b66BQ TIL That 95% of wasabi bought in the US is fake, and actually just horseradish, hot mustard and green dye