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TIL that as a child, actor Michael Berryman would be teased because of his appearance (he was born with hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, leaving him with no sweat glands, hair, fingernails or teeth). He would "go to the parents and say your children are brats and tell them they were bad parents".

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