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TIL that people with schizophrenia are more likely to get grey or white hair at a young age.

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pYype TIL That platypus have no nipples. Their milk oozes out of mammary gland ducts and collects in grooves on their skin--where the nursing babies lap it up or suck it from tufts of fur.
G5J7 TIL Pope Formosus’ body was exhumed and put on trial, where a deacon was appointed to answer for Formosus. The corpse was found guilty, stripped of its sacred vestments, deprived of three fingers, clad in the garb of a layman, and quickly buried; it was then re-exhumed and thrown in the Tiber.
kOYX4 TIL that Halo was supposed to be a Mac exclusive game, and Steve Jobs even announced it at MacWorld in 1999. After that presentation, Microsoft ended up buying out Bungie Studios and made it a Xbox exclusive because they saw the potential in it.
womZ1 TIL in the 1980s, NASA had a 1-900 number which charged $2 for the first minute and $.45 for each additional minute. It allowed callers to listen in on a mission status report and mid-flight press conferences, and horrifyingly, thousands of them heard the Challenger explosion in real time.
4Qw6 TIL That slaves were forbidden from owning musical instruments as they were used to communicate. Congo Square in New Orleans was the only place slaves were allowed to gather every Sunday, to trade, sing, dance and play music. this led to the birth of Jazz