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TIL That people with multiple personality disorder can have different allergies with different personalities.

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ePlD TIL Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy directed and produced the 80′s classic movie Three Men and a Baby. Highly illogical.
WMGA TIL that during the 50’s a Russian scientist started an experiment with foxes designed to replicate the domestication of wolves. The experiment has continued to this day where 70-80% of the foxes now behave similarly to dogs, but retain the physical features of foxes.
LkDYr TIL that in the American Civil War, most battles had two names. The North generally named battles after natural features while the South named based on man-made landmarks/towns near battle. The Northern defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run was a Southern victory at the First Battle of Manassas.
MkA7 TIL China is said to suffer from the worst brain drain in the world: 7 out of 10 students who enroll overseas never move back to live in China.
oR4g7 TIL there is a hybrid sport called Chessboxing in which two opponents play alternating rounds of blitz chess & boxing. First chessboxing competition was in 2003 in Berlin.