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TIL Both Prince and Michael Jackson Weighed 112 Pounds When They Died.

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wo8Yo TIL there are other similar disorders to Down Syndrome including Trisomy 18 and Trisomy 13, most of which are lethal at an early age
LN50 TIL that in 2003 the dictator of Equatorial Guinea took personal control of the national treasury, handing more than $500,000,000 to family members, ostensibly to prevent corruption by civil servants. He has also been declared a god, who “can decide to kill without anyone calling him to account”.
aNO0 TIL that Debra Oberlin, a former president of a defunct chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), was arrested for drunk driving.
R5o1Q TIL that Hitler banned IQ testing for being Jewish as did Joseph Stalin for being bourgeois
9OxM TIL In January scientists reported a simple way to turn almost any kind of cell into stem cells. These findings were invalidated in peer review. The lead researcher, Haruko Obokata, was found guilty of misconduct, the papers were retracted, and her supervisor and co-author hanged himself.