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W7rdo TIL In 1995, a boy was discovered with blood containing no trace of his father’s DNA due to an extremely rare case of partial human parthenogenesis, where the mother’s egg cell divided just prior to fertilization, making parts of his body genetically fatherless.
BBVK TIL someone was once arrested, convicted and fined for typing “../../../”
ZpER4 TIL that for a brief period in 1919, the steamship "Saratov" was the last outpost controlled by the Latvian government, as the entire land area of Latvia was held either by the Germans or the Red Army
b66aN TIL about "Old Tjikko" one of the world's oldest tree-organisms, estimated to be well over 9500 years old.
W7re8 TIL that the United States Supreme Court established that the tomato should be classified as a vegetable rather than a fruit under U.S. Customs regulations. The Court’s 1893 decision was meant to differentiate the technical botanical definition from the commonly used one.