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TIL there's a medical condition that causes its sufferers to sweat blood.

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grd1L TIL a countries average height is correlated with higher protein consumption. The strongest predictor of adult male height was dietary protein consumption, specifically the “protein index”, especially from animal sources like milk and pork.
dJyB TIL of Jose Mujica, former president of Uruguay and known as “the world’s ‘humblest’ president” due to his austere lifestyle and his donation of around 90 percent of his $12,000 monthly salary
Y7L5G TIL some sharks lay spiral shark eggs and others lay 'mermaid purses'. Some sharks are oviparous (lay eggs), some are viviparous (give birth to living young) and other sharks are ovoviviparous (the eggs hatch inside the mother before the young are born alive)
oMAr TIL that there is a rare snail that was named in honour of Steve Irwin, “Crikey steveirwini.”
9w0ZD TIL in 1874, the Freedman’s Savings Bank, created to help African Americans build wealth, collapsed due to mismanagement and fraud. Over 60,000 Black Americans lost about $3M in savings, devastating trust in financial institutions and crippling Black economic progress many decades.