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TIL that there is a person on the House of Congress’ Science Committee who believes that everything to do with the study of Embryonic development is a fabrication.

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VPD TIL that due to exponential growth, if someone somehow folded a paper 50 times, it would reach the Sun.
4kVPa TIL about the famous American novelist Winston Churchill who was the reason why the British prime minister referred to himself as Winston Spencer Churchill. They met on occasion, but gradually Spencer Churchill’s rise to power steamrolled the American into obscurity.
l7Xb5 TIL in 1919 Yankees baseball player Ping Bodie had a spaghetti eating contest with Percy the ostrich and won after Percy passed out after eating 11 plates of spaghetti.
LkLQ0 TIL Guinness records are set by people who apply for them, the company doesn't "seek out" new potential record holders
j686a TIL a British woman was wrongly convicted of murdering her two sons (born 1996 and 1998) when they really died from SIDS. The little-understood disease caused a jury to believe she smothered them to death. After serving 4 years, she was released in 2003. She died in 2007 from alcohol abuse.