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TIL that all four members of the Beatles are/were ordained ministers through the Universal Life Church.

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8eJQX TIL that the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake moved Japan’s main island of Honshu eastward by eight feet and dropped 400km of coastline by two feet.
VMyom TIL about Superfecundation and Superfetation. Rare but possible in humans, in Superfecundation the mother produces several eggs at the same time, they are fertilized by different fathers, and she has twins. Superfetation is when a woman ovulates while pregnant and has two pregnancies at once.
BgORL TIL that in 1943, Canadian legislation created a temporary extraterritorial space for the birth of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands. This ensured that Margriet was not born on foreign soil, which would have made her ineligible for the royal succession under the Constitution of the Netherlands.
jNePn TIL of Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese spy. He masqueraded as a woman and had a 20 year long sexual relationship with a French diplomat, whom he used as a source of intelligence. He even convinced the diplomat that he had given birth to a child, whom he had purchased.
4J6w TIL during the Battle of the Bulge, American MPs trying to uncover German infiltrators would ask soldiers questions that every American should know. General Omar Bradley was briefly detained after he “incorrectly” identified Springfield as the capital of Illinois. The MP thought it was Chicago.