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Yes, but they never lose that slender figure.
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TIL twins separated at birth, one raised by a German Catholic Nazi family and the other by a Jewish family in Trinidad, both as adults flushed the toilet before and after going, enjoyed sneezing in elevators to startle people, dipped buttered toast in coffee, and wore rubber bands on their wrists.
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TIL that the first powered airplane flight was not by the Wright Brothers in 1903, but by English aeronautical inventor John Stringfellow, who in 1848 flew for 30 meters in controlled and level powered flight in Somerset. Textbooks are being changed to reflect this new research and give him credit.
rMVM
TIL in 1972 a pocket of uranium in Africa was found to have undergone self-sustaining nuclear fission for over 100,000 years, making it the only known naturally formed nuclear reactor.
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TIL Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI got married by Proxy. Marie's own brother stood in for the groom during the ceremony, and she only met her husband for the first time a month after their marriage
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TIL in 2008, a couple who inherited a 378 acre farm in Costa Rica transformed it into a huge no-kill dog shelter. Over 1000 dogs, many recovering from illness, starvation and abuse, live there together. Visitors are welcome to walk and play with them.