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TIL in the early 80s there was a wheat field in downtown NYC

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M7XpB TIL that a third type of twins exist: "Semi-identical" - When a single egg is fertilized by two sperm and then splits.
p8xdG TIL that the submarine USS Tang was sunk by its own torpedo.
OLng TIL Haiti and Liechtenstein unknowingly had the same flag until they first met at the 1936 Olympics, this led to the addition of a crown to the the flag of Liechtenstein in 1937.
R555w TIL Cher's 1998 hit "Believe" is the first song to use Auto-Tune. The singer believed her career was hitting "rock bottom," and after hearing a different song with a wobble effect created by a vocoder (a voice effect pedal tool), decided she wanted to create a similar song.
ePkg TIL in 2008 a beach was stolen in Jamaica. The 500 truckloads of sand remain missing to this very day.