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TIL that Jerry Springer was born in a London bomb shelter during WWII

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b9KD7 TIL that the author of the Japanese horror novel, Battle Royale, had a nightmare where a teacher commanded him and the other students to kill each other. He vividly remembers the expression on his face and his own terror in the dream, which got him to write the book.
5Vb79 TIL because of time dilation, astronauts aboard the ISS are younger than people born at the same time on Earth, even if it's only a fraction of a second.
v9RD TIL the official state gem of Washington is petrified wood
m187E TIL astronomers created fake stars to improve earth's telescopes view of real stars.
epY64 TIL while all puppies from the same litter are fraternal twins, identical twins are extremely rare with only one verified case occurring in a pair of Irish wolfhounds in South Africa.