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TIL German chocolate cake was invented in Texas

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y0QX TIL that the filters on cigarettes have no proven health benefits, and are the most common form of litter in the world.
Oodb1 TIL a man who doesn't exist had a baby. The DNA in the "fathers" sperm, which was 90% his DNA and 10% that of his twin’s, was from his unborn fraternal twin which the "father" had absorbed as an embryo.
Jm9m TIL a woman in 2009 began growing nails from all of her hair follicles. 6 years later, doctors still have no clue what is causing this. Treatment to keep her alive is $25,000 per month.
wLnDP TIL the third wife of emperor Claudius, Messalina, was so bold that she publicly married another man while Claudius was out of Rome, apparently in a coup attempt against the emperor. Claudius was informed and found his family's heirlooms in the new husband's home. The pair were predictably executed
PYpYJ TIL About Lise Meitner, a woman who described a groundbreaking phenomenon called nuclear fission in a letter to Nature Editor, she was ignored because she was Jewish and five years later Otto Hahn won a Nobel prize for the same discovery.