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TIL that Kodinhi a small town in Kerala India is reported to have a whopping 250 pairs of twins born to just 2000 families, that’s more than six times the global average and one of the highest twinning rates in the world.

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4VEw TIL in 1933, a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater.
wLj7P TIL that the first crime ever recorded in Antarctica occurred when a Soviet scientist, upset at losing a chess game (to another Soviet scientist), attacked his opponent with an ice axe. It's unclear whether the attack was fatal or not, but the result was that chess was banned by the Soviets.
DQP6j TIL that in 2003 Akshinthala Babu stood completely still for 30 hours, breaking the world record for standing the longest without moving. A record William A. Fuqua has held 5 times, totaling more than 36 hours of standing in his records.
lmbA TIL The mortality rate for cheetah cubs in the wild is about 70 percent, while it is only 20 percent for those under human care.
BryYL TIL of Ronald McIntosh. In 1986, McIntosh escaped from prison, stole a helicopter and landed it at another prison’s exercise yard to pick up convicted bank robber Samantha Lopez. The pair were arrested by the FBI 10 days later and McIntosh received 25 years for air piracy and escape.