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TIL a woman can become pregnant with a cancer rather than an embryo.

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X0Vgk TIL of Marvin Maples, a Tennessee grandfather who kidnapped his grandchildren and moved to San Diego where they assumed false identities for 20 years. Maples claimed his daughter and her husband were a part of a Satanic cult and regularly abused their children.
Wk7YA TIL an entire family was killed by rotting potatoes.
4Xgrw TIL about Cemetary Guns and Coffin Torpedoes. Flintlock devices placed inside coffins or rigged with trip wires on top of fresh graves in cemetaries in order to deter bodysnatchers from stealing fresh corpses for financial gain.
new0B TIL of the difference between the Italian "Macaroon" (coconut merengues) and the French "Macaron" (merengue-cream sandwich)
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