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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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dDke7 TIL the first woman to be executed by the U.S. federal government was Mary Surratt, conspiring in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
69gel TIL Parmesan cheese is technically only parmesan if it comes from one of 5 specific parts of Italy.
vDnj TIL The original Hoggle Muppet from The Labyrinth resides at The Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama.
XNE8 TIL: The patent for the Lego brick expired years ago, which is why copycat products like Mega Bloks are allowed to exist
N7ZbE TIL that the scene in IT: Chapter Two and in the novel where a group of teens assault a homosexual man and his partner before tossing one of them over a bridge to his death was actually based on a true story. Stephen King borrowed details from the real life event, and added Pennywise to it.