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TIL babies are (probably) genetically engineered to look more like their fathers than their mothers, so that fathers will be inclined to believe their paternity.

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ANwB4 TIL the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown was heavily damaged after destroying a Japanese aircraft carrier during the first carrier battle in history. After 48 hours of emergency repairs, it ended up helping destroy two more carriers before being sunk and inadvertently saved the other US carriers.
7bmr TIL an airline pilot ordered 30 pizzas for his passengers, after finding out they would be delayed 2 hours for weather. The pizzas were delivered within 30 minutes by Domino’s and were cleared by security and sent directly to the plane in an official airport vehicle.
ADo8x TIL of the Giant Pyrosome; a “free-floating, colonial tunicate that is made of thousands of identical clones, together forming a hollow cylindrical structure that can be 60 feet (18 m) long and wide enough for a person to enter”
Oo9VY TIL there is an asteroid named after Tom Hanks. It's called "12818 Tomhanks" and orbits the Asteroid Belt in between Mars and Jupiter.
LRnV TIL that GTA: Chinatown Wars is the most complex Nintendo DS game ever made, with more than 800,000 lines of code;