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NoLQ TIL Charles Darwin married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood, before having 10 children, three of which died before the age of 11. This lead him to wonder whether close genetic matches had an impact on health, adding to his theory of evolution and the passing of traits to offspring.
xVLe0 TIL that Jonathan Freeman, the original voice actor for Jafar in Aladdin, also plays Jafar in the Broadway version of Aladdin. That makes him the only actor in the Disney broadway shows to play the animated and real life version of a Disney character.
0ZEN TIL - Masturbating or having sex regularly can lower your risk of death by coronary artery disease.
4VKb TIL there was a surgeon called Robert Liston who achieved the incredible 300% mortality rate following a surgery.
XE9GE TIL that aspects of your personality are determined by how your brain works.. e.g. if the frontal part of your brain is more dominant on the left side you are probably the kind of person that approaches a problem, if your right side is dominant you avoid the cause of the problem