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TIL: according to Jewish lore, Adam’s first wife was not Eve, but infact a half-woman half-snake named Lilith.

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w9Qo TIL in 2004, doctors treating a virginal Japanese woman discovered an ovarian tumor that had grown into the form of a doll and had a brain, eye, spinal nerve, ear, teeth, thyroid gland, bone, bone marrow, gut, trachea, and blood vessels.
N79ZM TIL if you lose fat weight, 84% of that comes out through your lungs. In other words, nearly all the weight we lose is exhaled.
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