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TIL of Williams Syndrome, a condition that makes you friendly

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rgxe TIL that one of the originally pitched names for Hannah Montana was Alexis Texas.
N5LJ TIL some of the original Playstation 1 games had the game music set as CD audio, meaning you could listen to the game music from a normal CD player. Some games contained hidden tracks that could only be accessed this way.
nJyP TIL At the height of WW1, a German-American miner was lynched by a hysterical anti-German mob in Illinois. The participants were all promptly acquitted by a jury, with the Washington Post stating that although the murder was bad, it was a ‘healthful and wholesome’ show of patriotism.
0xMM TIL not ejaculating for 7 days is associated with a 45.7% increase in testosterone
NJXP TIL of a quarantined leper colony in Hawaii that, when the patients were cured, was made into an independent county where the patients could stay as residents. To this day no one under the age of 16 is allowed in, and the only visits allowed are officially sanctioned tours.