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TIL about Three Identical Strangers, a pair of triplets who were secretly separated at birth and sent to different families to study child development.

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Eb5p TIL Herbert C. Brown’s “wife, bought him the book ‘The Hydrides of Boron and Silicon’ by Alfred Stock as a graduation gift. The book was chosen…because - at $2 - it was the cheapest in the University of Chicago bookstore.” In 1979, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with Boron.
yQajw TIL that the venom of the blue ringed octopus is 1000 times more powerful than cyanide, and has enough venom that could kill about 26 humans in a minute.
ernJ TIL in 1918 a carrier pigeon saved 194 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been blinded in one eye, shot through the breast, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
VM6Qm TIL why some people seem to have no personality.
nWWdd TIL that women’s tears contain pheromones that lower men’s testosterone levels.