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

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GBD1 TIL Queen Mary of England was gifted a 1:12 scale doll house in 1924. It had working lights, books that were specially written by writers for the library, bottles filled with the appropriate drinks in the wine cellar, and model cars made by Rolls Royce. Even the toilets had working plumbing.
VdMB TIL that Penguinone, an organic chemical compound, got its name from the fact that its molecular structure resembles a penguin.
N7rB8 TIL Disney had to change the name of the popular cartoon "Moana" in Italy, due to the possible confusion with the vintage Italian pornstar, Moana Pozzi.
OQk6 TIL that around 4,000 Brazilian street children “disappeared” after being arrested in a social cleansing leading up to the 2012 UN Conference in Rio. The Brazilian government refuses to say where they are. Around 90,000 people have disappeared in Rio in only two decades. More than half are minors.
0wmVp TIL about the Oka Crisis, where the mayor of Oka wanted to raze Aboriginal land to expand a golf course. A documentary, called Kanehsatake: 270 years of resistance gives a native’s perspective