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TIL that 95% of all Thoroughbred racehorses can be traced back to a single 18th-century stallion

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yQN7l TIL of Kodinhi in India, which has the highest twin rate in the world, with over 400 twins in about 2000 families. Scientists aren't sure of why this is, but it has been observed that even when women of Kodinhi have children with men outside of their village, the twin birth rate is still high.
mD6x TIL that the idea that people used to think that the world was flat is actually a modern misconception and “with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat”
RQ94 TIL on Slipknot’s Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) album Corey Taylor avoided using profanity in response to claims he relied on it
WkgkA TIL Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the German general who told Hitler to go fuck himself
Y7vPx TIL that Mark David Chapman, the man who murdered John Lennon, also considered killing other famous figures prior to killing Lennon: David Bowie, Elizabeth Taylor, and Johnny Carson were on the list.