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TIL that people with a certain type of dwarfism are genetically protected against getting diabetes and cancer

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1aeXD TIL a group of native Americans occupied Alcatraz for 14 months before being forcibly removed by the federal government.
16wEW TIL that the snow used in the Wizard of Oz was actually asbestos fibre
PYMQn TIL we have three types of tears - basal, reflex and psychic. Psychic tears, the ones we produce when we are sad, have a different chemical make up than the other two and contain a natural painkiller, leucine enkephalin, which is perhaps why we feel better after we cry.
eWLg TIL that a professor of medical psychology in New York started hearing a voice in her head in 1965. Her colleague encouraged her to write down what it said. The voice produced 3 volumes of “spiritual psychology,” some of which is written in iambic pentameter.
KYwb4 TIL that Santorio Santorio, an Italian Professor, Physician, qnd Physiologist weighed everything he consumed and excreted over a period of 30yrs in the study of Insensible Perspiration or what we know today as metabolism.