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TIL sucking in your stomach for years causes Hourglass Syndrome, which can malform your entire rib cage

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R50gw TIL only one species of gilled mushroom grows underwater.
GYVM7 TIL that Marie Skłodowska Curie, the first and only woman awarded twice a Nobel Prize, married with Pierre Curie (Nobel Prize for Chemisty), had a daughter that was awarded too, jointly with his husband in 1935. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date.
xNP7 TIL that the 1965 “Slumber Party Barbie” came with a scale permanently set to 110 lbs, and a diet book with just one instruction: “Don’t Eat!”
vMMD TIL the Supreme Court ruled that Social Security is Not Yours despite your years of paying into it, that workers have no legally binding contractual rights to their Social Security benefits, and that those benefits can be cut or even eliminated at any time.
pYaaA TIL Cormac McCarthy, One of America's greatest writers, wrote 10 books and an estimated 5 million words on a 1963 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. It sold at auction in 2009 for $254,500. The next day McCarthy received the same model from a friend as a replacement that cost $20.