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TIL of cherubism, a genetic disease that causes large cysts to form inside face bones, making the bones sponge-like and disfigured.

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9YBJX TIL Kathy Lee Gifford was one of the early singers on "Name that Tune".
gMOR7 TIL a 75 year old Georgian woman accidentally cut off Internet access to all of Armenia while searching for copper wire.
rNRv0 TIL that the states of Mississippi and Alabama were originally part of the state of Georgia until officially recognized in 1802 when the state of Georgia accepted their borders and the territory of Mississippi which would later become the states of Mississippi and Alabama was formed.
R5RG8 TIL a superiority complex is a psychological defense mechanism that develops over time to help a person cope with feelings of inferiority
e0DjJ TIL of Walter Summerford, who was struck by lightning in 1918, 1924, and 1930- each of those incidents separated by six years. He died in 1932, but in 1936 (six years after the last strike) lightning hit his gravestone one last time.