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TIL There is a Condition Called Alien Hand Syndrome that Gives Your Hand a "mind of its own"

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5EEQ TIL that lawn darts (“Jarts”) were banned in the US and Canada in the 1970’s and 1980’s and the ban still stands today.
ep0j5 TIL the only vertebrates to be preserved mating are a pair of 47 million-year-old turtles that were attached by their genitals as they got buried alive.
x6jeb TiL that aluminium drink cans are on average, recycled ever 60 days. Good work guys.
N19M TIL that Puyi, the last Emperor of China, spent his last years as a commoner in Beijing under the communist regime. On his first day of work as a street sweeper, he was lost and told passersby, “I’m Puyi, the last Emperor of the Qing dynasty. I’m staying with relatives and can’t find my way home.”
PYNde TIL Quentin Tarantino said in 2010 that had never met his father, Tony Tarantino, who had wanted to be an actor and claims he was blacklisted in the 1960s. Said Quentin: "He wanted to be an actor [...] Now he's an actor only because he has my last name"