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TIL that brown scales develop on your skin if you don't bath after a week, it's called Dermatitis Neglecta

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X096E TIL the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) baseball team once had a 228-game losing streak lasting from 2003 to 2013.
7raJX TIL that the inner columns of Windsor Guildhall don't actually touch the ceiling; Sir Christopher Wren was forced to add them at the insistence of the Council, however he made them short on purpose to prove that they were not needed in the first place.
OGave TIL about the Fire Lily, a South-African flower that only blooms after wildfire.
Z809a TIL that the song Africa by Toto has a sound installation that was set up in an undisclosed location in the Namib Desert to play the song on a constant loop. That installation is powered by solar batteries, allowing the song to be played indefinitely.
Ge45 TIL that pinball was illegal for 30 years in many major US cities. Politicians thought that pinball was a game based on chance and therefore must have been a mob-run scam. The ban ended when a master pinball player was called in front of a committee to demonstrate his skill.