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TIL a rare type of diabetes, Type 5 (formerly Type J), is caused by childhood malnutrition rather than genetics or autoimmune disease.

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ZPkQ TIL Han Solo is the only non-Jedi/Sith in the entire original trilogy to ever use a lightsaber when he cuts open the tauntaun’s belly.
R5ll6 TIL that the term "Honey Moon" comes from drinking fermented honey for a lunar cycle to improve fertility after getting married. It should have been called "Mead and Breed".
0kov TIL that a billboard can create 100 liters of water a day out of thin air!
AkNl TIL That Lord Byron, upon attempting to bring his dog with him to Cambridge Trinity College, was informed that dogs were not allowed. He retaliated by bringing a bear instead.
Wkm4o TIL President Abraham Lincoln had dreams that sort of predicted his own death. Previous to April 15, 1865, the day he was assassinated, Lincoln had dreams he was standing by a casket next to a soldier. He would ask the soldier ‘who died’ and the soldier would reply, “The President”.