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TIL the absence of lunulae (the half moon shape on fingernails) is common among people with depression

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yQ78a TIL, authors will write themselves into their own stories for various purposes. Stephen King wrote himself into the Dark Tower series after a near-fatal accident. (Stephen King in the book also suffers the same accident)
nW4eP TIL Escaping slaves use to throw balls of fried cornmeal out to distract plantation hounds from tracking them. The hounds stopped barking and tracking thanks to the cornmeal which later adopted the name “hush puppies”.
W7pmL TIL about Eugene Lazowski, a Polish doctor who saved 8,000 people from being sent to Nazi death camps by injecting them with a solution that mimics a typhus infection.
pEAp TIL that if you have 1 Jewish grandparent you can apply for Israeli citizenship. The same criteria was used by Nazi Germany to determine who was Jewish.
WkED8 TIL about WWII American Lieutenant John R. Fox. He volunteered to stay behind in a town overrun by enemy troops as US troops retreated. As the enemy advanced he called in an artillery barrage on himself. When US troops later counterattacked they found his body alongside about 100 German soldiers.