› added 2 months ago

5

TIL The tallest person with dwarfism was 7"2 at age 33. At age 18 he was 4"0.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

wop8W TIL that if you have bell clapper deformity, your testicles hang in your scrotum and swing freely, like a clapper in a bell. This free-swinging can lead to testicular torsion, a painful condition in which your testicle twists and loses its blood supply, requiring emergency care.
MedyV TIL that there was a small horse called Thumbelina, who was just 43 centimeters (17 inches) tall.
XELoQ TIL about the holiday paradox and why time seems to go by more quickly as we age and when we are having fun. Our brain encodes new experiences, but not familiar ones, into memory, and our retrospective judgment of time is based on how many new memories we create over a certain period.
rNnnw TIL about the only surviving male defender of the Alamo, a slave of Col. William Travis named Joe.
wLlDP TIL the Yellow Rose of Texas is about a woman who is “high yellow” referring to a bi-racial or light skinned brown person.