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TIL of an Austrian man named Adam Rainer, who is the only person in medical history to have been classified as a dwarf and a giant during his lifetime.

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695mm TIL there is a galaxy orbiting and crossing our own galaxy. Basically we have a dwarf galaxy in our galaxy.
9YBK7 TIL that in the 1800s in a domain in the Philippines, feudal lords prevented peasants to celebrate festivals except for one every year. The peasants used this opportunity to mock the lords by making giant puppet versions of them. The festival is celebrated yearly since then.
N7O4e TIL Christopher Reeve considered suicide after his accident. But all it took was one sentence from his wife for him to never think about suicide again: "...But I want you to know that I'll be with you for the long haul, no matter what. You're still you. And I love you."
nedWY TIL Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, a British comics magazine, first published in 1884 is regarded to be the first comic strip magazine to feature a recurring character. Sales of the magazine have been as high as 350,000, the magazine describing itself as "the largest selling paper in the world"
JYXYm TIL that when holocaust survivors were given candy/food by the allied troops upon liberation, many died on the spot (or soon after) due to re-feeding syndrome