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gMr8A TIL Ali Farka Touré (3-time Grammy award winner) was the tenth son of his mother but the only one to survive past infancy.
OR86 TIL the Dionne Quintuplets, born in 1934, were identical and conceived naturally. Their mother, who already had five children, was expecting twins. She was pre-eclamptic, went into early labor, and gave birth at home. In total they weighed 13.4 lb., but thrived and were never admitted to hospital.
BrkbL TIL The band KISS had to change their logo in Germany because the letters SS too closely resembled the "s-bolts" logo of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel forces. It is illegal to domestically distribute or publicly use symbols from the Nazi party in Germany.
mxbAR TIL about Phineas Gage who survived a traumatic brain injury when an iron rod was driven through his entire skull, destroying much of his frontal lobe.
m10kM TIL: San Francisco is no longer the most expensive place to live.