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

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GA5W4 TIL The first Presidential Car to pass Secret Service demands was the Sunshine Special - a V12 1939 Lincoln Model K limousine that was used as the official state car by United States presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman which cost only $108,426 in 2023 dollars.
N108 TIL There is a 230 foot long sea organ on the coast of Croatia. The organ, designed by architect Nikola Basic has 35 tubes that make music whenever the waves crash into them.
jN7vE TIL that in the 13th century, a Muslim polymath named Ibn al-Nafis discovered the circulation of blood 300 years before William Harvey
Z8Gvo TIL In World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22.
wLLgJ TIL that nearly all citrus fruits are hybrids of four original species