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TIL that a woman faced fraud charges after a DNA test showed she wasn’t the mother of her own children. She was in fact a chimera.

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dDrnB TIL people say "Jesus H Christ" probably because English commoners read the insignia of the first three letters of Jesus's name in Greek ΙΗΣ as JHC and misheard the Lords payer as "Harold be thy name" and thought Harold was Jesus's middle name and Christ his last.
1awe4 TIL in 2008 a man bought a used car and registered it in his girlfriends name without her knowing. When they broke up one year later he parked it at Chicago’s O'Hare Airport racking up more than $100,000 in parking ticket fines in her name.
ZYxB TIL that during the Vietnam war, Navy Seal teams One and Two amassed a combined kill/death ratio of 200:1
kPE7 TIL the height of the Eiffel Tower varies daily by 15cm based on the temperature
x6Ao TIL that a 17-year old girl survived a 10,000 feet fall from an airplane after it was struck by lightning and exploded. She landed in a jungle and kept herself alive with only candy and her dad’s advice.