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TIL fingernails grow nearly 3-4 times faster than toenails

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Z8NDv TIL the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, where experts will notice all the stupid errors in a news article but still treat the next article as 100% accurate, was invented by the author Michael Crichton who named it after the famous physicist he was talking to at the time to make it sound more scientific.
MejLA TIL Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was responsible for the creation of the PG-13 rating
8rN8 TIL the average recorded age at death for the slaves of the ancient Rome was extraordinarily low: seventeen and a half years (17.2 for males, 17.9 for females)
a8kQZ TIL "zoanthropy" is a psychological pathology wherein a person believes that they are a type of non-human animal. E. G. "clinical lycanthropy", the belief that they turn into a wolf.
nWdVY TIL about a woman who got pregnant without a vagina via a knife fight