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TIL there are two birth anomalies - superfecundation (twins with separate fathers) and chimerism (absorbed twins), that if combined, will create a single human with two biological fathers.

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9107 TIL when auditioning for the part of Apollo Creed in “Rocky,” Carl Weathers told producers, “I could do a lot better if you got me a real actor to work with.” Unbeknownst to him, the man feeding him his lines was Sylvester Stallone.
Y7pmP TIL Aggression can be decreased (and increased!) in participants performing aggression experiments by using non-invasive direct brain stimulation.
Eokd TIL That there is a Military Weapons testing area roughly the same size as England, In the middle of the Australian desert
JY6k TIL 3 suicide bombers prematurely exploded because the bombs were set on daylight savings time.
PBNn TIL Roman Emperor Caligula was told that he had “no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae”. He then built a two-mile temporary floating bridge and walked his horse across.