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TIL twins can be born with different fathers in a conflict raising surprise known as heteropaternal superfecundation where the woman releases multiple eggs days apart

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XExAQ TIL Alexander the Great once suffered an arrow wound that pierced his lung. He fought on as long as he could, but eventually collapsed on his shield. His army was able to protect him long enough to win the battle and to escape. They cut the arrow out of his chest and amazingly he fully recovered.
6Ebr7 TIL Mississippi, Kentucky-in-Africa and the Republic of Maryland were colonies that later included in Liberia established by freed slaves from America
yVVm8 TIL that Trans-Atlantic civilian travel was still accessible during the early stages of WW2, with the SS Drottningholm conducting service between New York, USA and Gothenburg, Sweden
JYW9m TIL about John Howard Griffin, a journalist who in 1959 took anti-vitiligo drugs and spent 15 hours daily under an ultraviolet lamp to temporarily "become" a black man and travel through the South for six weeks.
MX40 TIL there were creatures called Tardigrades which were put out into open vacuum space and solar radiation for ten days, and survived. Some of the ones that died managed to mysteriously resurrect themselves