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TIL the reason there are no baby pigeons sightings is because they leave their nest effectively in adult size

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p0X4 TIL Andre the Giant’s physique was due to acromegaly, a treatable (and often reversible) gland disease that causes constant secretion of growth hormone. Despite doctors and friends begging him to have surgery, he refused: “If this is the size that God wanted me to be, I’m going to be this size.”
XEkvQ TIL Japanese do not throw away broken pottery, but instead fix it by repairing it with gold so that the cracks become part of its beauty, as part of a philosophy that treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to hide
jjya TIL the Scottish parliament and the Tourist Board of Scotland in 2007 spent £125,000 coming up with the slogan “Welcome to Scotland”
5YKA8 TIL The teen who sold a kidney for an iPhone is now attached to a dialysis machine. He suffered organ failure, and is likely to be bedridden for life after suffering renal deficiency. He could get a transplant for $336,000 AUD on the black market - more than 80 times what he received for his kidney.
D1QOJ TIL the 550 Porsche Spyder that killed James Dean is believed to be cursed. Actor Alec Guinness told Dean he’d be “dead by this time next week if he got in that car.” Seven days later Dean would be killed by his beloved ‘Little Bastard’ Porsche. And he wasn’t the only life claimed by the cursed car.