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TIL Saudi Arabia promotes practice of marriage between close relatives which has produced high level of several genetic disorder including thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, spinal muscular atrophy, deafness and muteness.

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6EY7Y TIL all Australians are legally entitled to a free portrait of the Queen
j9Qp TIL giraffes only sleep 30 minutes a day, were thought until the 1950’s to not sleep at all, and only kneel down to drink water once every few days. Of all mammals giraffes sleep the least.
w61W TIL there is a guy who smells everything before it goes into space with the astronauts to protect them from toxic and obnoxious odors
o09E TIL the US Federal Register is still using floppy disks sent by courier because a secure e-mail system is “too expensive”
0wdlM TIL According to Plutarch the traitor Bessus was executed by having two trees forcibly bent towards each other, tied him to both, and then the trees released, causing an agonizing death in which the ligaments, tendons, muscles and organs would slowly come apart as the trees straightened