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TIL Laron Syndrome, a type of dwarfism, makes its carriers immune to diabetes and cancer.

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KYkgB TIL Radiohead's name was inspired by a Talking Heads song titled "Radio Head" from their 1986 album True Stories. Yorke said the name "sums up all these things about receiving stuff ... It's about the way you take information in, the way you respond to the environment you're put in."
rNGKW TIL about Preston Tucker, an idealistic automobile maker who vowed to build the world's greatest and safest car in 1946. Once production began, Ford, GM, and Chrysler had his company shut down and his manufacturing plant seized by the US government. Only fifty cars were made.
RY8j TIL there is a community of Hutterites in South Dakota that are virtually untouched by time.
XERZE TIL that land that was covered by glaciers during the last Ice Age is still rising about a centimeter a year, 12,000 years after the massive weight of the ice sheets is gone
DGej TIL The Department of Veterans Affairs still pays a pension to one surviving daughter of a Civil War veteran.