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TIL that semi-identical twins are possible. Two sperms fertilize one egg, resulting in 3 sets of chromosomes. Normally, this would kill the zygote, but there are two recorded cases where this resulted in twins.

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VJGG TIL Two Domino’s Pizza employees in North Carolina were arrested in 2009 after a video surfaced on the Internet that showed one of them putting cheese up his nose while preparing sandwiches, farting on salami slices, and blowing his nose on the food, as the second employee filmed.
Wa8o TIL a prospector in Oregon found a 16 ton meteorite on his neighbor’s land and dragged it almost a mile to his land to claim it as his own.
O5RX TIL: that up to 75% of all adult African Americans and Native Americans and 90% of Asian Americans are lactose intolerant.
lOp5 TIL That by following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour — by putting a frog in the bucket of milk — scientists have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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