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TIL Elizabeth Taylor suffered from a rare genetic mutation, distichiasis, that resulted in double rows of eyelashes and that usually has horrible complications.

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OGE9L TIL what we call a 9-to-5 workday, Chinese people have "996," which means they have to work from 9am to 9pm 6 days a week.
5YybB TIL about Katharine McCormick a biologist who contributed the majority of funding for the development of the oral contraceptive pill who fearing the hereditary of her husband’s Schizophrenia vowed never to have children and developed a staunch belief in the value of contraception.
Oo8kX One night in 1987, a Canadian man named Kenneth Parks drove for 14 miles from his house to his in-laws. He then broke in and made his way upstairs, bludgeoning his mother-in-law with a crowbar that he’d gotten from the boot of his car before stabbing her repeatedly to death. He then proceeded to choke and stab his father-in-law, who miraculously survived. Parks then drove himself to the police station and turned himself in. It sounds like a fairly cut and dry murder case, but after going to trial, Kenneth Parks walked free. Thanks to a combination of a lack of motive, his consistent version of events, and data gathered from EEG readings, no charges were pressed against him because all evidence pointed to the unlikely and bewildering truth that Parks had been sleepwalking. It remains one of the most remarkable cases of homicidal sleepwalking in history.
p8AjG TIL That the Republican Party was the Anti-Slave-Party in the American Civil War
Mpl0 TIL that because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections, rather than with a single, continuous pour, the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet.