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TIL Michael J. Fox’s Middle Name is Andrew.
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TIL that up to 50% of young twins develop a secret language that can not be understood by others.The phenomenon is called cryptophasia and is thought to be created to communicate when one of the twins develop language slower than the other.
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TIL of John Deydras, a clerk who claimed to be the real King Edward II, but swapped as babies. He attempted to claim a palace and challenged Edward to single combat. At his trial, he confessed to making it up and blamed his cat, which had been possessed by the devil. Both he and the cat were hanged.
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TIL There are more possible Go positions than there are atoms in the universe.
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TIL The all-time heat record of 134 °F (56.7 °C) at Death Valley on July 10, 1913 is highly contested, being described as "essentially not possible" given the conditions at the time by some meteorologists and especially questionable as it was recorded by an untrained and eccentric observer.
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TIL Samuel Johnson, an Englishman, said regarding the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”