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TIL there is an apartment in China that has a train track running through it.

894 upvotes • doopityWoop22

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TIL about Swyer syndrome where a born female appearing person can have both x and y chromosomes

894 upvotes • knitmeablanket

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TIL that in 2007 BBC journalist Alan Yentob was caught out for having clips of himself nodding inserted into interviews on a TV show he fronted to make it appear that he had conducted them instead of other journalists

887 upvotes • a3poify

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TIL of the fate of Mr. Cheeseface, the dog featured on the cover of National Lampoon magazine with a gun to his head. He was actually shot and killed by an unknown assailant a few years later on a farm in rural Vermont

875 upvotes • CupidStunt13

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TIL that at the start of WW1 famous Serbian General Radomir Putnik was in enemy territory. The Austro-Hungarian Emperor granted him safe passage to Serbia so that he could take charge of the Serbian Army. He was then able to successfully stop the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia.

870 upvotes • Its_Happning_Again

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TIL that Napoleon's penis was amputated during an autopsy shortly after his death in 1821. Since then it has passed through several owners. It was purchased by John K. Lattimer in 1977, and it remains in his family. NSFW

866 upvotes • AnniePadillaQyDG

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TIL: The Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor was a planned exoskeleton suit inspired by the MJOLNIR armor from the Halo series for Canadian soldiers featured on the Discovery Channel. Features included wrist sheaths and in suit morphine injections. The inventor died in a car crash before he finished it.

834 upvotes • Flares117

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TIL the doctor who treated the U.S. president James A. Garfield after his shooting in 1881 was named Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss, a doctor whose first name was actually "Doctor"

828 upvotes • Wilson_Publearnow

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TIL One Of the first introductions of Building regulations came from 17th Century BC Ancient Babylon, and invovled the death penalty for a builder if a house he constructed collapsed and killed the owner

810 upvotes • LostWaldoAgain

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TIL of a Lithopedion, a calcified stone foetus caused from a rare complication in abdominal pregnancy (which, in itself, is rare).

804 upvotes • epsilonik

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
TIL there is an apartment in China that has a train track running through it.	894	doopityWoop22
TIL about Swyer syndrome where a born female appearing person can have both x and y chromosomes	894	knitmeablanket
TIL that in 2007 BBC journalist Alan Yentob was caught out for having clips of himself nodding inserted into interviews on a TV show he fronted to make it appear that he had conducted them instead of other journalists	887	a3poify
TIL of the fate of Mr. Cheeseface, the dog featured on the cover of National Lampoon magazine with a gun to his head. He was actually shot and killed by an unknown assailant a few years later on a farm in rural Vermont	875	CupidStunt13
TIL that at the start of WW1 famous Serbian General Radomir Putnik was in enemy territory. The Austro-Hungarian Emperor granted him safe passage to Serbia so that he could take charge of the Serbian Army. He was then able to successfully stop the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia.	870	Its_Happning_Again
TIL that Napoleon's penis was amputated during an autopsy shortly after his death in 1821. Since then it has passed through several owners. It was purchased by John K. Lattimer in 1977, and it remains in his family. NSFW	866	AnniePadillaQyDG
TIL: The Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor was a planned exoskeleton suit inspired by the MJOLNIR armor from the Halo series for Canadian soldiers featured on the Discovery Channel. Features included wrist sheaths and in suit morphine injections. The inventor died in a car crash before he finished it.	834	Flares117
TIL the doctor who treated the U.S. president James A. Garfield after his shooting in 1881 was named Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss, a doctor whose first name was actually "Doctor"	828	Wilson_Publearnow
TIL One Of the first introductions of Building regulations came from 17th Century BC Ancient Babylon, and invovled the death penalty for a builder if a house he constructed collapsed and killed the owner	810	LostWaldoAgain
TIL of a Lithopedion, a calcified stone foetus caused from a rare complication in abdominal pregnancy (which, in itself, is rare).	804	epsilonik