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TIL Patrick Stewart lost his hair at 18 due to alopecia

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LR8V TIL the CIA conducted a secret recovery of a Russian Nuclear Submarine from a depth of 16000 FT, with the help of Howard Hughes.
mxb4Y TIL Planthoppers (Issus coleoptratus) has the only mechanical gears ever found in Nature. The first natural design that mechanically functions like our geared systems contrasting the gear-like structures previously found on other animals like the spiny turtle which were purely ornamental.
9dAp TIL During the 2001 Presidential Clinton-Bush transition, 62 new White House staff discovered the W key missing from their keyboards
RBNQ TIL that in 1999, 47 black residents of a Texas town were arrested on drug charges solely on the uncorroborated word of one undercover agent who was a member of the KKK. Many were sentenced to long prison terms; some served years before release. For doing this, the officer got 10 years probation.
JY57Q TIL of a building in Silver Spring, Md. that has an inflatable shark on it in relation to Discovery Channels's Shark Week.