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TIL the original “Siamese Twins” fathered a total of 21 children, and their descendants now number more than 1,500.

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wNaE TIL Doritos were invented at Disneyland to help curb costs of leftover tortillas.
QJdO6 TIL the saying "to work up an appetite" originated from back when people would become hungry as the result of physical labor AND THEN consume food. Wow, the more you know! These days, I've just been saying, "Man, I really jerked up the ability to binge-eat an entire carrot cake."
XvLX TIL a former Texas nurse poisoned and killed up to 46 children and was sentenced to over 150 years in prison. She will be released in 2017 to prevent prison crowding.
9Y8mp TIL in 2012, a man sued PepsiCo arguing that he had found a dead mouse in his Mt. Dew. Thus, PepsiCo had to prove and found that a mouse would "have dissolved into a "jelly-like" substance after 30 days"
Vod0 TIL that the WWE has a nuclear-proof vault that has all of the WWE’s footage