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TIL that the skatman was made to help people with stammers. Scatman John himself suffered from a severse stammer

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x6aLk TIL that some victims of the Hammond Circus Train Wreck 1918 were so badly burned, that they were wrongly thought to be African-American train porters.
Eg6lp TIL human chimerism is a rare occurrence in which a person has 2 sets of DNA. The rarest kind is caused by fraternal twins that fuse together when they are only a clump of cells in size.
oR5EL TIL “Edward Scissorhands” test screenings were so encouraging for 20th Century Fox, the president of the studio considered marketing the film on the scale of “E.T," but decided, “We have to let it find its place. We want to be careful not to hype the movie out of the universe.”
OGLg1 TIL that scientists grew a 'mini-brain on the move' that can contract muscle
8oR4 TIL that in terms of price per kilo, saffron can be up to three times as expensive as gold - with 1kg averaging over $130,000.