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TIL DJ Carl Cox played the Millennium (1999 to 2000) on New Year’s Eve twice, by performing in Sydney, Australia and again in Hawaii after flying back over the International Date Line.

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e0QKJ TIL That the Kauai' o'o's song was recorded before it went extinct in 1987. It captures the voice of the last known bird, a male, singing a duet and pausing for the female to respond. These birds mated for life.
vrbR TIL a family who adopted five children on a bid to get on ‘Extreme Makeover’ kicked the five children out of their home once the makeover was complete
k45m TIL that a woman almost lost custody of her children because a DNA test showed that her children weren’t hers. Turns out there are humans who exist with two sets of DNA if two fertilized eggs fuse together during conception. The matching DNA was eventually found in her cervical tissue.
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