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TIL that an "acardiac baby" is a severely malformed parasitic twin stealing circulation from the other twin, which can cause extreme stress on the normal fetus resulting in mortality for both twins

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W7O5L TIL Catholic and Coptic Orthodox people claim to have seen the Virgin Mary (the so-called “Marian apparitions”), the first in 40 AD in Zaragoza (Spain) and the most recent in 2009 in Warraq, Egypt. These apparitions have even taken place in countries where Christianity is not the dominant religion,
dDWDB TIL that Embalming wasn't commonly used in US funerals until the US Civil War, when morticians followed after both armies selling their services for embalming and shipping, and several prominent Civil War figures were embalmed and displayed, including Abraham Lincoln.
6rvJ TIL that Elon Musk considers himself “nauseatingly pro-American” and that the USA is “[inarguably] the greatest country that has ever existed on Earth”
OGEV7 TIL that The Official Register Of Color Names (ORCN) includes many colors including piss yellow
W7EnN TIL Hard drives will be physically faster if you format files to the outer edge of disk