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TIL A British toddler was born with an extra strand of DNA
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TIL Tanzanians like albinos a little too much.... Tanzanian children with albinism are hunted for their body parts, as they believe the bones hold a kind of magic that will bring success and fortune
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TIL What is dead may never die: Astronomers discovered a "zombie" star that went supernova in 1954...then exploded again in 2014. According to the study's lead author, "This supernova breaks everything we thought we knew about how they work."
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TIL a dude in the middle ages wrote a book claiming that witches were stealing men's penises, putting them in a nest, feeding them oats, and keeping them as pets. He was in part responsible for starting the European witch trials.
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TIL Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca was sentenced to suicide by Roman emperor Nero. Due to his old age and diet he failed to bleed to death after severing his veins. He then, to no avail, attempted to consume poison. Finally, he suffocated during a steam bath meant to quicken blood loss.
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TIL Andromeda is 6x bigger in the sky than the moon, and it's just too dim to see with the naked eye