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TIL hedgehogs can suffer from a rare disease called "balloon syndrome," which causes them to inflate like a beach ball.

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mxYbR TIL in 1925, two medical students received a cadaver and a challenge. In response, they spent 1,500 hours dissecting a human nervous system -- beginning at the base of the brain and working downward -- leaving the system intact in one continuous piece.
bPmE TIL the oldest U.S. airline to never have a fatal accident and still offer free meals in coach class during interstate flights is Hawaiian Airlines.
7rwyZ TIL that in China, brains from live monkeys were eaten as part of a great feast.
M7gKA TIL after US President Wilson had a stroke in 1919, his wife Edith Wilson limited his access to just his doctor and few close associates, and acted as the president's proxy and effectively ran the White House, and by extension the country, by extolling access to the president.
PYrxw TIL when Julie Andrews received her damehood in 2000, Queen Elizabeth said to her that she’d ‘been waiting for this for a very long time.’ One of Julie Andrews’ earliest performances was at age 13, singing “God Save the King” before a then Princess Elizabeth.