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TIL parents in China can sue their children if they do not visit often enough

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1PYX TIL human twins can have 2 different fathers, but the same mother. This is called bi-paternal twins.
Y76Xd TIL Governor Al Smith and candidate for President in 1928 dropped out of school at 14 and never attended high school or college
9wJ1r TIL that in his 1905 Annual Address to Congress, President Theodore Roosevelt recommended that the then territories of New Mexico and Arizona be admitted as one single state. He explained that the territorial borders were just "matters of convenience" and should not be legally binding on admission.
JdpQ TIL The sandtiger shark gives birth to live young, but doesn’t have enough placenta or yolk to feed all of them in the womb: Instead, the embryos eat each other until the strongest sharks are born.
78EEZ TIL Cristiano Ronaldo was named in honor of his dad’s favorite movie actor’s (and American President at the time of his birth), Ronald Reagan.