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TIL that Father Damien, a Roman Catholic priest, selflessly helped the people with leprosy quanrantined in Kalaupapa, Kingdom of Hawai'i until his death from leprosy itself

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78PoZ TIL that the longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is 45 letters long and describes a type of lung disease. The longest "word" stands at 189,819 letters long and would not fit in the title of this thread.
a889Z Til that the smallest chameleon ever discovered is 21.66mm long and it's genitals make up 20% of its body length.
pErb TIL that in 1963 Harry Truman wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post criticizing the CIA, which he created, for becoming increasingly sinister and casting a shadow over the image the US was trying to project to the world.
QJPjd TIL that a ticket seller at a Japanese garden stopped collecting admission fees from foreign tourists after one of them yelled at him and he became too scared to ask them to pay. He let about 160.000 people enter the garden free in 2 and a half years causing a $220,000 demage.
loYZ5 TIL the animatronic T-Rex in Jurassic Park (1993) occasionally malfunctioned due to rain and would randomly spring to life, scaring the crap out of the crew eating lunch