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TIL of Maple Syrup Urine Disease; a disorder inherited via genetic mutations causing an infant's urine to smell sweet, like maple syrup.

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wnyM TIL the five worst cities in the US for air pollution are all in California
7lwZ TIL the base sound of the lightsaber is an old projection motor Ben Burtt worked with as a projectionist. The “sparkling, scintillating” part was discovered by accident when he passed a microphone behind a television. Burtt’s “natural sound” approach in Star Wars pioneered modern sound design
1gNW TIL that when William Faulkner gave his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature, the audience did not understand him due to his deep Southern accent; when the speech was printed in the papers the next day, it was hailed as one of the greatest Nobel Prize acceptance speeches ever
P1OMe Today I learned a pole with a orange sock is called a wind sock. It tells you the direction the wind is coming from
JdpQ TIL The sandtiger shark gives birth to live young, but doesn’t have enough placenta or yolk to feed all of them in the womb: Instead, the embryos eat each other until the strongest sharks are born.