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TIL a set of triplets was intentionally separated at birth and given to three sets of parents with intentionally varied socioeconomic backgrounds as part of an experiment. It was uncovered when two of the triplets happened to attend the same college in 1980

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5VrLn TIL the use of OMG is over a hundred years old
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