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TIL that Nickelback is seriously considering making a Slayer cover album

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XEnKP TIL that 14 of the 26 members of the Da Silva family in Brazil have 6 fingers on each hand due to a genetic condition called polydactyly
78Qg7 TIL Mark Twain is often wrongly credited with the quote: "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." Earliest credit goes to French mathematician and philospher Blaise Pascal in “Lettres Provinciales,” 1657.
0wvbN TIL George Washington owned multiple sets of dentures made out of hippopotamus ivory, gold, lead, animal teeth, and even human teeth, and that by the time of his inauguration he only had one remaining tooth left.
jNZNM TIL that China's one child policy introduced in 1979 prevented the birth of 400 million people, as well as generated up to two trillion in fines.
Ax47 TIL autism is not actually on the rise. Studies have shown that the apparent increase in autism cases stems from changes in how physicians define “autism”.