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TIL of the only man in recorded history to be diagnosed a dwarf AND a giant. At age 18 he was 4 ft, and later in life due to a pituitary tumor he grew to be 7ft tall.

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b9yw7 TIL that butterflies and bees need salt to survive, so they sometimes drink the tears of crocodilians such as caimans and other animals in regions where the mineral is scarce.
9MWM TIL that the Great Pyramid of Giza was originally constructed with a covering of polished casing stones that would act like gigantic mirrors and reflect light so powerful that the pyramid would be visible from the moon.
j61rQ TIL in a Florida courtroom an exotic dancer on trial for violating an anti-nudity ordinance wore her outfit and bent over for the judge to determine if he could see anything indecent; she was found not guilty, but a courtroom photo was published in Playboy
W79OL Today I learned that eight elements were discovered in the village of Ytterby in Sweden, and four of these elements (yttrium, terbium, erbium, and ytterbium) were named after Ytterby itself.
rMA4 TIL After a doctor named Richard Barista was slapped with divorce papers from his wife, he sued her for the return of the kidney he gave her 8 years ago. He requested her to pay $1.5 million for the organ he donated and insisted his cash-for-kidney claim was a direct result of his wife’s behaviour