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TIL bone spurs are permanent deposits and do not heal and go away

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XEeQk TIL that Italian author Umberto Eco said that social media "gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community...but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
8DMG TIL Ulysses S. Grant’s administration was plagued with corruption and scandal due to nepotism, favoritism, and the unprecedented way he ran his cabinet resulting in Black Friday (1869) and Whiskey Ring (1875)
VR70 TIL that Vasili Blokhin, chief executioner of the Stalinist NKVD, personally shot and killed over 7,000 people
VPD8 TIL that if humans could accelerate their arms at one tenth of the speed that a mantis shrimp does, we could throw a baseball into orbit.
PYEwg TIL legendary producer Rick Rubin held an actual funeral complete with casket and grave for the word “Def” after finding out it had been accepted into the standardized dictionary. Amongst those who attended in 1993 included Tom Petty, Flea, and Trent Reznor.