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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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lwAB TIL that Richard Feynman wrote a letter to his wife 16 months after her tragic death from tuberculosis at age 25. The letter remained unopened until his death in 1988.
VBMWD TIL in 2019 one of Russia’s troll farms was evicted by the building owners after repeated bomb threats.
XEKA6 TIL that 10 percent of the population in the whole world are left-handed or lefties. Lefties use their brains differently but they encounter struggles like using scissors and computer mouse. But one thing's for sure, lefties are unique and favor to use their left hand
4XGgb Today I Learned the 'Croydon cat killer' hunt ended after a three-year investigation with Scotland Yard declaring humans in the clear and foxes likely to be behind mutilations in south London. Some speculated the killings had been part of "Satanic rituals"
j6r9N TIL that in 1210, King John of England imprisoned a noble named Maud de Braose with her son William in a dungeon beneath Corfe Castle, and left there to starve to death. When their bodies were retrieved 11 days later, it was found that Maud had eaten parts of her son’s body before she died.