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TIL about triplets that were deliberately separated at birth by their adoption agency. After investigative journalist, Lawrence Wright, looked into the matter, it was revealed the triplets were part of a scientific experiment by Dr. Peter B. Neubauer.

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R7MJ8 TIL of Gino Bartali, a cyclist who used his fame as a winner of the Tour de France to smuggle counterfeit documents hidden inside his bicycle through Nazi checkpoints in WWII Italy under the guise of training. These documents allowed as many as 800 Jews to escape persecution by the Nazis.
b67QN TIL in 1411 a Chinese army invaded Sri Lanka, defeated and overthrew the king, and brought him back to China as a prisoner to the Ming emperor.
JEJl TIL that, since 1950, acceptance of an Academy Award statuette requires that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for US$1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette.
Wk1MY TIL the United States has had a Vice President who was Native American. Charles Curtis served as VP under Herbert Hoover from 1929-33. His mother was of mixed Native heritage, and he grew up with his maternal grandparents on the Kaw Reservation in Kansas.
PYeE TIL A woodchuck can chuck 361.9237001 cubic centimeters of wood per a day.