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TIL a family in the US found their son - conceived via IVF - was not theirs after taking an at-home ancestry test. The mistake was concluded to be human error and the boy now sees both families

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WEyY TIL Spartan marriage involved a custom of capturing a woman, shaving her head, and dressing her in a man’s clothing. Then the groom/capturer would secretly visit her, and finally sleep with her. All Spartans were required to marry at age 30.
JYNl TIL Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
KONdB TIL Allvar Gullstrand applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and refraction of light in the eye and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1911. Due to the math in his works, it is lamented there are few ophthalmologists and physiologists who can understand it
aZNA TIL that Velociraptors were roughly the size of turkeys.
x0d1 TIL that Nimrod, recorded in Genesis as “a mighty hunter before the Lord” is now used to mean a dimwitted or stupid person because of Bugs Bunny who sarcastically refers to Elmer Fudd as “nimrod,” an ironic connection between “mighty hunter” and “poor little Nimrod”, i.e. Fudd. No one got the joke.