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TIL fingernails grow nearly 3-4 times faster than toenails

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9gBp TIL Before the introduction of the catacombs, there was once a cemetery so overflowing with bodies in central Paris they made soap with the fat of the corpses and had houses with bones protruding from the rooftops of adjacent houses.
a84Xy TIL there's a British overseas territory where the average age of first time mothers is 12-15
dDvAj TIL The actual origin of the word Lyric stems from poetry recited alongside someone playing a Lyre in Ancient Greece.
Z8dMo Till scientists solved the complex problem of growing seedless watermelon without seeds in the 1990's eating watermelon was less enjoyable. They achieved this feat with a complicated cross-pollination process, thus creating a new commercial fruit market.
78pZr TIL a few months before his death in 1896, Alfred Nobel was prescribed nitroglycerin for this heart condition.