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TIL when Londoner Henry Budd died in 1862, he left his whole estate to his two sons on one condition – that neither of them would grow a moustache

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0d1VN TIL that a company released an app in 2016 that allowed users to review other humans similar to Yelp for businesses. Ambiguity as to whether it was opt-in and how much control users had over negative reviews led to public outcry. It was taken down soon after.
0wyay TIL that Maya Moore, the best women’s basketball player in the world, retired early to fight for criminal justice reform. She helped overturn a wrongly convicted man who served 22 years of a 50-year sentence. His name is Jonathan Irons.
gr7XW TIL French KFC does not sell gravy!
ep4Eb TIL Rotationplasty is a surgical procedure where, in case of bone tumor, they remove a child's lower leg, rotate it 180 degree and attach it to a thigh bone in a way that makes an ankle joint serve as a "new knee". It looks like having one leg shorter and rotated back.
grK88 TIL in terms of endurance, there is no living animal that can beat a human; basic human biology makes humans the ultimate runners