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TIL Nick Nolte was named 1992's "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine.

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9wQnr TIL: People with blue eyes have a higher rate of alcoholism than people with dark eyes
oRnaW TIL Chinese basketball giant Yao Ming was knowingly bred for the sport, forced into it against his will and subjected to years of dubious science to increase his height
WkNxA TIL Animals confined to small places in zoos often start exhibiting unnatural repetitive motions or Trichotillomania due to neurosis caused by confinement labeled az zoochosis the zoo equivalent of psychosis
X0v9j TIL “swallowing the tongue during a seizure” is actually a myth. The muscle underneath the tongue (lingual frenulum) prevents this from happening
5YvR8 TIL about Supreme Court Judge Joseph Force Crater, who became the "missingest man in New York," when he disappeared on the streets of Manhattan in 1930. On the day he destroyed several documents, shifted portfolios to his 5th Ave apartment and withdrew $5000. He was declared legally dead in 1939.