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TIL a team of researchers and regulators developed a life-saving gene therapy to cure a bay of a fatal disorder in only a number of months

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JPOj TIL that all Germans who are officially registered as Catholics, Protestants or Jews pay a religious tax of 8-9% on their annual income tax bill
VB6eG TIL of the "Mondegreen" phenomenon: A mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. It was coined in 1954 when the words "laid him on the green" were misinterpreted as "Lady Mondegreen".
X0EBj TIL that nine-banded armadillos always give birth to quadruplets- a single fertilized egg splits into four identical embryos.
6M9Z TIL that the US House of Representatives has an official mace that can be used to threaten unruly congressmen.
vGox TIL: Marie Antoinette was the subject of countless cruel, and sometimes pornographic, pamphlets throughout her reign. Pornography in eighteenth century France took the form of crude caricatures, colorful cartoons, and even sophisticated etchings and engravings.