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TIL Elvis Presley was a twinless twin. His would-be twin brother was stillborn 35 minutes before Elvis was born.

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kJrk1 TIL sumo wrestler Emmanuel Yarbrough is the heaviest athlete in the world.
wL9WW TIL Chroniclers of Germanic peoples traced the ancestry of their kings back to the god Wōden (Odin). If such descents were true, Queen Elizabeth II would be a descendant of Woden, via the kings of Wessex.
aw9YZ TIL the actor who played Dr. John Spivey in the movie “One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest” was a real doctor who during shooting, diagnosed actor William Redfield with leukemia who died only a year later
J17bV TIL that Chris Ballew, best known as the lead singer of The Presidents of the United States of America, released over twenty albums of children’s music under the pseudonym Caspar Babypants.
p8aoZ TIL that it is estimated that the world's 25 million tons of spiders kill 400–800 million tons of prey per year.