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TIL seven signs and symptoms of vitamin D deficiency

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xOn5 TIL when Christopher Reeve was in ICU after his spinal injury, Robin Williams surprised him by dressing up as proctologist. Reeve wrote “"For the first time since the accident, I laughed.”
bWQQ TIL: Thomas Nast, the guy who created the modern-day images of Santa Claus and Uncle Sam, also popularized the mascots of today’s Democratic and Republican parties.
RxZw TIL Alexandra David-Neel disguised herself as a beggar and crossed a frozen, 19,000ft mtn pass in winter to get into Lhasa, witnessed murders and battles, had to barter for passage with warlords, crossed Mongolia and the Gobi desert, became incredibly ill, and boiled her boots to avoid starvation
j6OMn TIL about IG (Internet Group), in 2001 the most accessed news portal in Brazil. Due to the constant flurry of bad news, especially due to urban violence, they decided to institute the "good news day", w no bad news reported. The first day for the campaign was chosen to be September 11, 2001.
OGaY4 TIL Stallone is the only actor in the history of American cinema to have starred in a box-office number-one film across six consecutive decades