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TIL about Mitchell Herndon, a teen with a disease so rare it didn't have a name. Being only one of two people ever, they diagnosed it through the help of fruit flies. When he passed away, they opted to name it "Mitchell Disease"

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pY6mZ TIL the reason Amish men shave their mustaches, is bc they are conscientious objectors. They do not support war in any form or fashion, and because it was so commonplace for military men to be mustachioed, they do the opposite.
6WBJ TIL that the age of consent in Japan is only 13 years old.
JZDQ TIL Over the course of the evolution of mammals, one lower and one upper jaw bone lost their purpose in the jaw joint and were put to new use in the middle ear, giving mammals improved hearing ability.
ANoGg TIL I learned that one of the people who is first credited with the ideas for a home mortgage and home insurance policy, as well as being an early outspoken proponent of paper currency, was named If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned before renaming himself Nicholas Barbon
KGZQ TIL that the cookiecutter shark feeds on animals much larger than itself by taking out small round cuts of meat from their bodies.