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TIL - about Harlequin-type Ichthyosis, a severe genetic skin disorder characterized by a newborn's skin covered in thick, hard, diamond-shaped plates separated by deep cracks NSFW

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grWvX TIL Shampoo was introduced to Britain in 1814. The Bengali surgeon Sake Dean Mahomed opened the Isles' first shampoo bath in Brighton that year and promoted the practice as able to cure many diseases and give full relief when everything else failed.
yQ84e TIL the term "Regulatory Capture" -- a form of government failure in which a regulatory agency, created to serve the public interest, instead advances the interests of the industry it is meant to regulate, resulting in a net loss for society.
Bg6Jx TIL Hugh Laurie shot his audition tape for House from a bathroom in Namibia because that was the only room with enough light.
N7oy6 TIL of Griselda Balco, Colombian drug lord of the Medellín Cartel and pioneer in the Miami cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1980s through the early 2000s. It has been estimated that she was responsible for up to 2000 murders while transporting cocaine. She was shot and killed in 2012.
8eLmL TIL While noodles were popularized by Thailand’s government in the 1940s as part of an effort to save rice after a major flood, the first mention of Pad Thai in a cookbook only occurred in the 1960s.