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TIL that the longest time between two twins being born is 90 days

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WEbA TIL that Louis Pasteur wasn’t the first to invent pasteurization. It was a Hungarian man named Preysz Moric who discovered it 3 years before Louis Pasteur, but nobody paid any attention him, because he published his research papers in Hungarian - a then undecipherable language.
NgD1 TIL in the Lebanese government, the President must be Maronite Christian; the Prime Minister must be Sunni Muslim; the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament must be Greek Orthodox and the Chief of the General Staff must be Druze.
ADQrn TIL about jailhouse lawyers; prisoners who study law behind bars to help other inmates with any legal advice they may need. These inmates often can't get themselves out, but want to help others who can.
XE4bP TIL: In 1696, William III introduced a tax which required those living in houses with more than 6 windows to pay a levy.To avoid this, house owners would brick up all windows except 6. As the bricked-up windows prevented rooms from receiving any sunlight, the tax was known as daylight robbery.
4k9AX TIL that Neil Diamond had Barbra Streisand and Bobby Fischer as classmates at his Brooklyn High School - Erasmus High.