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x9Bo TIL in 1986 Glasgow renamed the street of the Apartheid controlled South African consulate to Nelson Mandela Place which meant all of their correspondence had to contain the name of the political prisoner.
LQjaP TIL Elizabeth Greenhill (1615-1679) and her husband William Greenhill had 39 children together (32 daughters & 7 sons). All were single births save one set of twins, which is unusual as the most common cause of such a large number of children, hyperovulation, typically manifests as multiple births.
l71LA TIL about the Rosenhahn Experiment, where several researchers feigned psychiatric symptoms and were admitted to psychiatric hospitals, only to immediately act normal after admission. None of the staff identified the researchers as impostors, and many had difficulty getting released later.
7RJZ TIL the song “Chocolate Salty Balls” from South Park reached #1 on the UK singles chart
0OaN TIL that in 2014, three mycologists (fungus experts) from Kew Gardens in England, analysed the DNA of a supermarket packet of dried porcini mushrooms and found three species unknown to science.