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TIL that some people are ‘chimeras’, and are made up of the DNA of fraternal twins who fused to make one person.

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XE4KP TIL On January 1 2019, all works published in 1923 enter the public domain. This is the first public domain entrance of copyrighted material in 20 years.
dJO8 TIL that when Martin Strel swam over 3000 miles down the length of the Amazon River, a boat assisting him poured rancid blood overboard to distract the pirhanas
Y7G0Z TIL hot spots fed by mantle plumes can result in lava floods in intraplate regions. These results in much more lava (hundreds of thousands of cubic kilometers of basalt) being released than regular eruptions and create flood basalts.
LkDGd TIL Women and free African Americans could vote in New Jersey from 1776 to 1807, ~140 years before women gained suffrage nationwide.
yJ7e TIL a guy hung dolls from trees on an island in honour of a little girl who died, he eventually covered the whole island in dolls until he committed suicide