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TIL Mary Toft managed to trick doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. Mary did this by shoving the rabbits up her vagina before pushing them out and ‘birthing’ them.

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QNaja TIL 1066 and 1936 were the only years in English history with three different kings, both due to a short reign by the second king. In 1066, Harold II ruled 282 days before dying at Hastings. In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated after 326 days to marry an American divorcée.
9wygQ TIL that Earth orbits where the Sun currently is in real-time, not where it was 8 minutes ago - even though gravity propagates at light speed. Newtonian gravitation does not work unless it is assumed to be instantaneous.
JYOJj TIL that Kingdom Hearts began as a literal elevator pitch, when a Square Enix developer ran into a Disney executive in the elevator of their shared building
rRVmw TIL that the current Georgia state flag is modeled after the first Confederate national flag. In 1956 the state senate voted to incorporate the Confederate battle flag as a statement to preserve segregation. It was only changed to its current version in 2003 after years of refusal by the senate.
XEXk6 TIL about the Icarians, a French-based utopian socialist movement in the United States, established by the followers of politician and journalist Étienne Cabet, who invented the word "communism" in 1839.