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TIL: Due to Chimerism, a DNA test showed a mother was not the mother of her own children.

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BgBEb TIL that in 2014, scientists discovered a 30,000-year-old virus in Siberian permafrost. Named Pithovirus sibericum, it was still infectious and started killing amoebae, raising concerns about the potential release of unknown pathogens due to Arctic ice melting or drilling.
QJrMM TIL Fruit Flies come from INSIDE your fruit as larvae that hatch and become the fly as the fruit on the counter ripens.
yQx8J TIL that the flag of Ulster is made of a cross drawn in Saracen blood by Richard the Lionheart and a mutilated hand supposedly cut off to claim a kingdom.
9VGG TIL Martin Luther King Jr’s mother was assassinated by a gunman while she was playing the organ in church.
v1Vlr TIL the first US President's dog to received regular coverage from the press was President Harding's "Laddie Boy." That's because of Harding's doting of him as the dog had his own seat in cabinet meetings. Harding even had miniature statues of him made that he handed out as gifts.