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

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JYKnm TIL that Adrienne King, who played final girl Alice Hardy in Friday the 13th (1980) was harassed by a stalker for over a year after the film's release, which affected the sequel as well as the rest of her career
5oZp TIL The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was originally a parody of Daredevil, and both Daredevil and the Turtles were created from the same accident.
9YPNm TIL Taco Bell was founded by Glen Bell who watched long lines of customers at a Mexican restaurant. He ate there regularly, attempting to reverse-engineer the taco recipe, and eventually persuaded the owners to show him how they were prepared. With this knowledge, he opened a stand selling tacos.
d8wVB TIL Dorothy and Theodore are the same name reversed. They're both made from the Greek roots "doron" (gift) and "theos" (God).
QNPGd TIL there was code included in Windows XP solely so that Lego Island (1997) would run