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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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4JNR TIL that Cambridge University conducted a test in which pigs were shown a mirror and encouraged to retrieve objects reflected in the mirror. The test results suggest that pigs can differentiate between reality and the reflected image, thus demonstrating a high level of cognitive awareness.
oR14E TIL the hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil monkeys have names (Mizaru, Kikazaru, and Iwazaru)
GYdoG TIL of Vladimir Bukovsky, who spent a total of 12 years in psychiatric hospitals, labour camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union. During his time in prison he co-wrote a manual instructing victims of political psychiatry how to behave during interrogation to avoid being diagnosed as mentally ill.
loJGV TIL that a man named Ted Jorgensen had abandoned his son at birth. Years later, he got a visit from a biographer walking in his bike shop. The biographer asked him about his son who he had never heard of up until that moment, Jeff Bezos.
5VWeP TIL the sex worker arrested with Hugh Grant earned $1.6 million from publicity related to her arrest and used the money to buy a home in Beverly Hills and put her daughters through private school.