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TIL 1 in 5,000 babies are born without an anus opening.

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X0gZj TIL that Jean Baptiste Lully, a famous composer, died from gangrene after striking his own foot with a conducting staff
kO7K1 TIL that Helen Keller's family forbade her from marrying her fiancé, Peter Fagan, an ex-newspaper reporter who was working as her secretary, because of her disabilities. And society of her time believed women with disabilities shouldn't experience romance of any kind.
kOoG5 TIL that Russia consumes about 12% of the world’s heroin, while it contains just 0.5% of the world’s population.
Y7Vgr TIL the axe used by Jack Nicholson to chop through the door in The Shining was sold at auction in 2019 for $209,000. A crew member purchased it originally from the production company at the conclusion of filming with the intention of using it to chop wood.
OowQR TIL that for hundreds of years Europeans practiced medicinal cannibalism and in 1910, a German pharmaceutical catalog was still selling mummies for medicinal purposes.