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TIL - Everyone Is Born With ~70 Mutations That Aren't Present in Our Parents' Genetic Code

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OoGr1 TIL that Lurleen Wallace could not seek appropriate treatment for cancer after her husband, Alabama segregationist George Wallace, kept it a secret from her for four years due to the fact that he wanted her to become Governor of Alabama. She died after only a year in office.
YEpv TIL that the red liquid in a rare steak isn’t blood. It is actually water and a protein called myoglobin.
lo0vK TIL that a "perfect number" is one that that is the sum of its factors excluding itself, e.g. 1+2+3=6.
d8X08 TIL the human brain remains half awake when sleeping in a new environment for the first time.
x6pZD TIL Hoarding Disorder was not recognized as a disorder until the DSM 5 came out in 2013. Many believe the show Hoarders which came out in 2006 influenced considerable scientific research leading to it's official inclusion in the DSM.