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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.

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0poR TIL that “Rosie The Riveter” the woman that appeared in the WWII We Can Do It propaganda posters quit her job after only two weeks as a welder because it was too dangerous.
xVjO7 TIL in 1958 the filmmaker William Castle came up with one of the most famous movie marketing stunts of all time. Upon purchasing a ticket to the Movie "Macabre" you were also given a $1,000 life insurance policy. If you died of fright during the film, the film promised to pay out to your heirs.
8JOP TIL President Carter met with North Korea’s Kim Il Sung on a boat trip for five hours in 1994. Kim agreed with everything Carter proposed on resolving political differences and said OK to a summit meeting with the President of South Korea which never happened as Kim died that same month
j6e8v TIL the game "Exploding Snap" was originally mistranslated as "Exploding Snape" in the German version of Harry Potter, leaving fans to wonder if Harry and his friends were conjuring tiny Snapes they could blow-up for fun
GAva5 TIL the history behind the Game of Thrones logo that GRRM and his company incorporate the detailing on the logo elements and make them a perfect representation of each honorable house and the show.