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TIL that Sergei Rachmaninoff's famously massive hands may have come from Marfan's syndrome

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57Q9 TIL A man who lied about passing his second year of university, pretended to continue his study, crafting an elaborate lie until everyone he knew thought he was a medical doctor. No one found out for 18 years, until he killed his entire family to avoid being revealed.
R5waa TIL that the Tennessee State code has no laws prohibiting passengers in motor vehicles from consuming alcoholic beverages.
O794 TIL that Beelzebufo, aka the Frog From Hell, is the largest known frog species to have ever lived. Its diet may have included juvenile dinosaurs.
awJkL TIL Spider-Man could have been a fly. Stan Lee said "I saw a fly crawling on a wall. And I said, 'Boy, it would be great if I could get a superhero who could stick to walls like an insect.'" He considered "Insect Man, Fly Man, Stick-to-Wall Man, Mosquito Man... none of them sounded good enough."
Lk0QV TIL First Lady Edith Wilson was a direct descendant of Pocahontas, helped run the presidency after her husband's stroke, and attended JFK's inauguration at age 88