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TIL In West Virginia in the late 1800s you could get admitted to an insane asylum for “Novel Reading”.

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OR86 TIL the Dionne Quintuplets, born in 1934, were identical and conceived naturally. Their mother, who already had five children, was expecting twins. She was pre-eclamptic, went into early labor, and gave birth at home. In total they weighed 13.4 lb., but thrived and were never admitted to hospital.
VeLk TIL: All of the misleading information about Iraq and WMDs prior to American invasion came from a new, specially created unit in the Pentagon. The US Intelligence Community never claimed a connection.
gMLRD TIL 71 new species were discovered in 2019. Among them are the gorgeous looking cat-eyed cardinalfish & a fish called Wakanda. There have been 1,375 new species discovered since 2010!
BpZd TIL that in 1986 the dictator of the Philippines, Marcos, held an election to prove the peoples’ love of him, and then proceeded to lose that election
nWJM7 TIL that the Chicxulub asteroid sent pieces of Earth as far as Jupiter’s moons.