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TIL that the body's soft tissues, like muscles and tendons, gradually turn into bone over time under a rare connective tissue disease called Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP)

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JYE0k TIL that flamingos are unique from all other birds and mammals in that they have hinged upper beaks (jaws) instead of lower. They use their tongues and beaks to move water through filters they use to catch food. But, because their upper beaks move, they have to eat with their heads upside down.
rRnPe TIL Felix Bloch was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements." He left Germany in 1933 and went on to become the first professor for theoretical physics at Stanford
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