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12/10/2022

Since founding the Imagination Library in 1995, Dolly Parton has donated 100 million books to children

12/10/2022

During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes."

10/10/2022

If you have the feeling you’ve experienced an event before in real life, call it

07/10/2022

Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt once sneaked out of a White House event and commandeered an airplane

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05/10/2022

Mister Rogers always mentioned out loud that he was feeding his fish

06/09/2022

More human twins are being born now than ever before
Do you get the feeling that there are more twins around these days than there used to be? No? Well, you should, because according to a new study in the journal Human Reproduction, the "twinning rate" has increased by one-third since the '80s—up from 9 to 12 twins per 1,000 deliveries. Currently that adds up to about 1.6 million twins born each year across the world—meaning one out of every 42 babies is a twin. Helping drive this is the increasing use of medically assisted reproduction, and the delay in childbearing (twinning has been found to increase with a mother's age). For more pieces of trivia to impress your friends, here are 50 Facts So Strange You Won't Believe They're True.