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TIL over 7% of America is afflicted by Autoimmune disorders.
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TIL the main culprit for toothlessness in rural Appalachia is “Mountain Dew Mouth” not inbreeding or poor dental hygiene as once suspected.
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TIL an 80 year old man named Amou Haji hasn’t bathed in 60 years, sleeps in a grave-like hole, and smokes animal feces.
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TIL Fritz Haber invented the process for modern agricultural fertilizer thus saving millions of lives from starvation. He also pioneered chemical weapons processes which killed and horribly injured hundreds of thousands during WWI. His wife, son, and grand daughter all committed suicide.
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TIL after the USPS began offering parcel post, numerous poor families used the service to mail their children to relatives. One girl was mailed to her grandmother 73 miles away for just 53 cents.
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TIL African American architect Paul Williams learned to draw upside down because white clients were uncomfortable sitting next to a black man. He practiced mostly in Southern California and designed the homes of numerous celebrities, including Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Lon Chaney