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TIL of a condition called ‘dactylolysis spontanea’, where a person’s toe just randomly falls off, and doctors have no idea why it happens

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j6ErX TIL The government of Switzerland was involved in Mass Surveillance of its own citizens.
dDLYE TIL that in 1982, an artist and her assistants grew, cared for, and harvested an entire wheatfield in the middle of New York City on top of the landfill created by the construction of The World Trade Center, a piece of land worth 4.5 billion dollars at the time.
6EjwZ TIL: although their bodies were badly mangled from the effects of the high altitude / hypersonic orbiter breakup, forensic evidence has revealed that the Columbia Shuttle crew very likely died in seconds from rapid loss of pressure.
gby TIL the difference between a poison, a toxin and a venom. A poison is any substance that disturbs an organism’s functions, a toxin is a poison produced biologically and a venom is a toxin that is injected with a bite or sting.
nWnn9 TIL in about 1.29 million years a star will enter the Solar System’s Oort Cloud, passing less than 1/5th of a light year from the Sun and will be visible to the naked eye.