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TIL a grieving mother from India had twins through surrogacy using her dead son's semen.

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Brkly TIL while trying to make a point about how difficult it is for new writers to be published, English author and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing submitted two novels, "The Diary of a Good Neighbour" and "If the Old Could", to her publisher in the UK under the penname Jane Somers - and both were rejected
pbpA TIL that the Supreme Court says ignorance of the law is no excuse - unless you’re a cop.
N7JWP TIL that a government funded Minecraft Replica of Denmark, intended for educational purposes, was bombed several times by American hackers using smuggled in game dynamite, after which they planted several US flags on detonation sites.
yDja TIL In 2013 Scientists wired the brains of two rats together and showed that signals from one rat’s brain can help the second rat solve a problem it would otherwise have no clue how to solve.
78NJL TIL Uganda discovered around 31 million tons of gold deposits in 2022. Of this total, around 330,158 metric tons is refined gold worth about $12.8 trillion.