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TIL the longest pregnancy on record lasted over a year and produced a perfectly healthy baby girl.

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p8ENO TIL that Beate Uhse, before opening the 1st sex shop world wide, was a pilot in a German aircraft ferrying unit during WW2, flying, while occasionally being under attack, Stuka, Me 109 and even Me 262. April '45 she flew her son and his nanny on her own out of Soviet encircled Berlin to the west.
4kVB5 TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart considered his appearances on The Simpsons and Sesame Street "perhaps the two most distinguished bits of work that I've done in the US."
yQ40M TIL scientists developed an experimental "universal treatment" for allergies. While still being tested, it works by wrapping allergens in a nanoparticle which sneaks it past the immune system. This helps the body understand it to be harmless. They so far successfully cured mice with egg allergies.
xLZB TIL “&” used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet. The name ampersand comes from the fact that early 1800s school children reciting their ABCs concluded with “&” by saying “X, Y, Z, and per se and” (“per se” means “by itself”)
yQlAJ TIL smoking is more likely to cause bladder cancer than lung cancer and that is due to all toxins ending up down there before being flushed down the toilet.