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TIL there is a condition called Situs Inversus in which all of your organs are exactly mirrored from a normal person’s.

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N6OJ TIL the band Badfinger (early 70’s) had all their money stolen in a bad business deal and the two leading members committed suicide.
DQLwr TIL 145 Polish pilots, representing some five percent of Fighter Command’s overall strength, claimed 203 German aircraft for the loss of 29 of their number killed in the Battle of Britain. This amounts to 15 percent of the Command’s total score
5YJW8 TIL In 2016, more than half of all Americans forfeited vacation days, amounting to 206 million unused vacation days worth some $66.4 billion, and those employees who forfeit their vacation days do not perform as well as the ones who use all their time
EgYy0 TIL about the 'zombie ant fungus', A.K.A. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. The spores can permeate an ants exoskeleton, use it as a source of nutrition and take over its biological controls, forcing it to leave the colony and head for more humid climates to facilitate growth and release more spores.
YpLMP TIL That Frederick II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire who was highly interested in languages, raised 6 young infants without any human interaction in an effort to discover the "natural" language of the human race. The only result was the death of the babies, as they needed human contact to survive