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TIL there is a mutation that causes bones to become 8 times denser than normal that allow people to walk away from car accidents without a single fracture but with a trade off of being unable to swim.

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nWjdB TIL that during the Gulf War the coalition forces suffered nearly as many non-combat losses (145) as losses directly related to combat (148 KIA). This number is mainly due to a single C-130H that crashed while transporting 95 Senegalese soldiers.
xVWZg TIL a reason that jazz flute players wore "soul patches" (soul patches are a bit of facial hair left below the lower lip and popularized as a general style by jazz musicians) is because they disliked the feeling of the flute against clean-shaven skin below the lower lip
nekA9 TIL that Jennifer Lopez stole the majority of her songs and rarely actually sings in any of them.
oPAo TIL that Grant Imahara from the Mythbusters is one of the few people in the world to operate R2D2
epk4J TIL about The Many Faces of Jesus, an abandoned film by Jens Jørgen Thorsen, which pornographically depicts Jesus engaged in homosexual and heterosexual sex acts, as well as drunkenness and robbery. Even Queen Elizabeth II made a public comment calling the planned film "obnoxious".