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TIL that 1 in 20 people who take commercial DNA tests like those offered by ancestry.com discover that one of the people they thought was their biological parent is actually not their biological parent.

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epnv4 TIL: Gaston Glock began as a manufacturer of curtain rods in the 1960s, and knives for the Austrian military in the 1970s, and did not design or manufacture a firearm until he was 52 years old
JYddm TIL that "I Want to Break Free", a song by the British rock band Queen, known for its music video for which all the band members dressed in women's clothes which parodied the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, was considered controversial in the United States and banned by MTV.
v1p4j TIL Dwayne Johnson studied both criminology and physiology at the University of Miami, earning degrees in both. Known as 'The Rock,' Johnson admitted that he wanted to be in the FBI or CIA. When a professor told him he needed a law degree, he indicated that he needed to "get the fuck out."
4X5Ka TIL the hops used in beer have concentrations of phytoestrogens 50 times more potent than what’s in soy. In fact, even moderate amounts of beer cause an estrogenic effect that lasts for days in men's bodies
v1Q48 TIL Public news stations are legally required to play political campaign ads AS IS, even if they include libelous or blatantly false information.