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TIL your body will dissolve loose pieces of bone in your body after a fracture

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GANr4 TIL that in 2014 planning permission was granted to turn a disused Victorian building in London’s East End into a “Museum of Women’s History”. Locals were shocked the next year when the museum was unveiled as the “Jack the Ripper Museum”, leading to numerous protests
x65eB TIL - People with sickle cell can be more prone to have prolonged erections.
4n86 TIL C.S. Lewis after being raised in a Christian family, became an atheist at 15, and later became a Christian again after a long discussion with J.R.R Tolkien and Hugo Dyson. He wrote about this in his book Surprised by Joy.
KO4N6 TIL people with epilepsy were forbidden to marry in 17 states, until 1956. The last state to repeal these laws happened in 1980.
OKvL TIL of MOVE, a Black Power movement that was involved in several standoffs with police. There was a 1978 incident where an officer was shot and killed, resulting in life sentences for nine members, and a 1985 incident where police bombed their compound, destroying 65 homes and killing eleven people.