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TIL about Poland Syndrome, a medical birth defect where part of the individual’s chest muscles are missing during birth.

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e0J0b TIL of Pedro Rodrigues Filho, who was sentanced to 126 years in prison for killing 11 people, then was sentanced to another 400 years for killing another 60+ inmates, but was released after 34 years as per Brazillian law
1bl4 TIL Hershey’s gets their cocoa beans from farms that use child labor and slavery, something that they know and are doing little to change.
6P7W TIL that Men have lost the DNA code that once made human penises spiny
VMjYG TIL: Yosemite National Park in the US was named by the Mariposa Battalion, which forcibly removed all natives in the area. Mistakenly believing the tribe was named "Yosemite", the name was selected by a man struck by the land's beauty. Turns out, it means "They are Murderers" in the native language.
1argd TIL Saint Francis of Assisi believed that nature itself was the mirror of God. He called all creatures his "brothers" and "sisters", and even preached to the birds.