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TIL that a Bangladeshi woman was still pregnant with twins in a second uterus after she gave her first birth only 26 days ago

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XxMr TIL an Australian TV presenter wore the same suit on his show for an entire year to bring attention to the different standards his female counterparts are held to. Nobody noticed the whole time.
AVVn TIL a 73 year old base jumper died after intentionally setting his parachute on fire
XE9y6 TIL elephants rarely get cancer because they have extra copies of two cancer-fighting genes: P53, which hunts for cells with miscopied DNA, and LIF6, which obliterates the mutated cells before they can form a tumor.
R59N6 TIL in 1959, thirty TV Westerns aired during prime time in the US; none had been canceled that season, while 14 new ones had appeared. In one week in March 1959, eight of the top ten shows were Westerns. In addition, an estimated $125 million in toys based on TV Westerns were sold that year.
wDRP TIL the Catholic church spends an estimated $150 billion/year in the US alone. All but $20 billion of that goes to hospitals and colleges.