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TIL Michael Phelps annually visits Johns Hopkins to monitor the possibility of Marfan Syndrome. A disease with symptoms including abnormally long limbs, slender physique and extreme flexibility.

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QJA6M TIL that Toshiba created the worlds smallest spinning platter hard drive (HDD) in 2004, at a size of just .85 inches (2.1 CM), which could hold 2 or 4 Gigabytes of data and was even used in phones and Apple iPods of the era.
jN55X TIL the Bay of Pigs in Cuba is called "Bahía de Cochinos" in Spanish, cochino being a common fish in the area. Cochino can also be used as an insult in Cuban Spanish very similarly to how "pig" is used as an insult in English, leading to the mistranslation.
KwLJ TIL: The first gun control laws were aimed at black people to keep them from owning weapons to protect themselves.
Lkj9V TIL That the Normandy landings were only made possible by a disinformation campaign designed by the allied troops with the aim of misleading the German High Command as to the location of the invasion.
9Anr TIL that when numbers are written in a spiral, prime numbers appear along diagonal lines.