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TIL that a person in a coma for many years can still grow if they are young, as their body continues to produce growth hormones.

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BrJak TIL that the word "Jeans" came from the french word for Genoa city, "Gênes", because French people of Nîmes were inspired by a type of pants invented in Genoa, to dress the sailors of the city.
W7Vno TIL about William Knibb an abolitionist Jamaican missionary who held a funeral for slavery with the words:"The Monster is dead!"
78VZX TIL a lactating Virgin Mary supposedly reanimated and shot her milk across a room and into a man's mouth or eyes. There are multiple holy paintings of that "miracle."
OoKO6 TIL Beirut is the capital of Lebanon
rRKn0 TIL as a result of seeing the athrocities of forced collectivisation in the USSR, including famines and between 6 and 7 million deaths, Joseph Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva committed suicide.