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TIL about Trovants: Living stones of Romania that grow and move!

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BmJL TIL former NBA star, Dr. Shaquille O'Neal, owns 10% of all ‘Five Guys Burgers’ restaurants in the US
OoVbX TIL that written words in Old English had no standardized spelling, but were spelled phonetically.
e00VL TIL that dysentery is not one specific disease, but a manifestation of any of several gut infections (usually Shigella, Salmonella, C. diff).
ydxw TIL the University of Washington has developed an algorithm which can age a person’s face up to 80 years with insane accuracy.
bmb4 TIL During Great Famine, Ottoman Sultan Khaleefah Abdul-Majid I declared his intention to send £10,000 (£800,000 today) to Irish farmers but Queen Victoria requested that the Sultan send only £1,000 because she had sent only £2,000 herself.