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TIL the sudden (seemingly overnight) onset of white hair due to stress is known as “Marie Antoinette Syndrome”, named after the ill-fated queen whose hair turned white the night before her walk to the guillotine

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YaJv TIL that under “mutual combat laws,” two people can tussle without legal intervention as long as they both verbally agree to fight before punches are thrown.
6EExX A few transplants out of the 28,000 performed every year involve the same organ spending time in more than two bodies. The most common scenario arises when a patient in the late stages of a disease receives a new liver or kidney as a last-ditch effort to keep him alive. If he dies shortly after, and the new organ wasn't the cause, re-transplanting may be an option.
DVrj TIL that the parents of Geddy Lee (of the band Rush) fell in love as young teens at Auschwitz
PjdO TIL Bing Crosby was rejected from a club in Vancouver for wearing only denim. When Levi’s heard they made him a denim tuxedo jacket, originating the term “Canadian Tuxedo”.
6EaxJ TIL that the British Library is legally required to obtain a copy of every book published in the UK and Ireland, and also purchases a large percentage of English language books published abroad. This equates to an additional 6 miles of shelving each year.