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epkkE TIL that a little girl stopped growing at the age of 2. The doctors termed her condition as Syndrome X. She died at the age of 20, with the body of a 2 year old and the mentality of a 9 to 12 month old.
al9A TIL the Writer of “Caddyshack” fell off a cliff and died a month after the movie’s release, after becoming depressed due to negative reviews. His co-writer joked that he “probably fell while looking for a place to jump.” The film is now a cult classic.
mxjZM TIL that in 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima. The aftereffects eventually caused six or more satellites to fail, as radiation damaged their solar arrays.
5Vnen TIL that New Zealand author Janet Frame was falsely diagnosed as schizophrenic and was scheduled to be lobotomised. Several days before the operation, she won New Zealand's most prestigious literary prize, convincing doctors to cancel the procedure.
5ynn TIL on April Fools’ Day 1957 the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showed a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family “spaghetti tree”. Spaghetti was so little-known that many Britons contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own trees.