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TIL that TAR syndrome is a rare congenital disease in which babies are born without the radius bone in both forearms and also have very low levels of platelets, sometimes leading to life-threatening bleeding

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VPok TIL of ‘Dublin’s Pintmen’. Known to drink around 30 pints in a day, and according to a book on Irish pub law - 'Pintmen exude a sort of spiritual aura when in union with their pint. An ethereal look can be seen in their eyes as they are transported beyond spatial and temporal bounds.’
WkvbB TIL that Sweden allows hearsay as evidence in court. The country has very few restrictions on what evidence is allowed in court. It is up to the court to evaluate the reliability of the evidence presented.
rNYKe TIL that Teflon was first used for the first nuclear bombs. The anti-stick frying pan coating was used to coat valves and pipes in the separation of Uranium, which would corrode other materials much quicker. Only after WW2 was it used for cookware.
wLae7 TIL the Africa Union plans to have a single, continent-wide currency. The currency is likely going to be called afro or afriq.
xVQQ7 TIL that the rarest stamp in the world (the 1856 British Guiana 1c magenta) - of which only one specimen exists - has broken the world record stamp price each of the last four times it has been sold. It was sold for 6s, £120, £150, $36,000, $40,000, $280,000, $935,000, and most recently $9,480,000