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TIL mature cystic ovarian teratoma (ovarian tumor) can differentiate into tissue such as hair, teeth, fat and more

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4XOwR TIL that Charles Manson's mother sold him for a pitcher of beer to a woman who wanted to have children. His uncle had to find the woman so that he could get his nephew back.
9XB7 TIL when Eddie Van Halen recorded the guitar solo in Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” the speakers literally caught on fire
ooEW TIL in 2009, scientists discovered that a single, ant mega-colony had colonized much of the world on a scale rivaled only by human civilization, including 1 super colony spanning 3,700 miles along the Mediterranean coast.
p8l0Q TIL that Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold at auction for the then record price of $82 million in 1990. Since then it has not been seen in public. Its Japanese buyer threatened to have it burnt with his cremation but it is now believed to be owned by a collector in Switzerland.
e0p9n TIL that 28 fossils of the largest extinct species of snake were discovered in a coal mine of Columbia. The "Titanoboa" lived about 65 million years ago. The species clocked out at about 48 feet long and weighed roughly 2,500 lb.