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TIL that the Shakers, a celibacy-focused sect similar to the Quakers, has only 2 members left worldwide.

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xA5o TIL That people with “Morton’s toe” (correct term: Morton’s Foot Syndrome) actually have a shortened first metatarsal behind the big toe rather than an extra elongated one in the second toe.
x6Pj5 TIL, Apple has a patent on a round pizza box with 8 holes
yQbma TIL A baby was born with only a brain stem and almost no brain (2% of normal human brain). By age three, his brain had grown to almost 80% he size of a normal human brain. He now enjoys playing Mario Kart.
yVDAX TIL That the Carter Center got the Guinea worm from an estimated 3.5 million reported cases in 1986 to 22 reported cases in 2015. It has continued to be under 100 reported cases since.
b95b0 TIL that the song whistled throughout The Great Escape has lyrics attributed to an Anglo-Irish propagandist named Toby O'Brien. "Hitler has only got one ball, Göring has two but very small, Himmler is rather sim'lar, But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all"