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TIL there is a disease called “Stone Man Syndrome” which causes soft tissues to heal as bone, leading to sufferers losing mobility as the disease progresses.

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OoJZ1 TIL of Neerja Bhanot - a stewardess on hijacked Pan Am flight 73. She hid the passports of American passengers to protect them. Hijackers shot passengers killing 22 and wounding 150. Bhanot was posthumously awarded medals of bravery by India, Pakistan, and the US.
D1x0V TIL during the Tehran Conference, Stalin proposed over a dinner the execution of 50,000 to 100,000 German officers to prevent Germany from starting another war. Roosevelt, thinking Stalin was joking, said "49,000 would be enough." Churchill however was so enraged he stormed out of the room.
ne9GG TIL the food court at Costco makes so much money selling pizza to hungry shoppers, it's ranked as the 14th largest pizza chain in the US - even beating out California Pizza Kitchen, among others
X0krQ TIL that in 2005, identity thief Behzad Mofrad plead guilty on charges related to applying for a passport under the name "Kevin Andrew Collins." Kevin was one of the first missing children whose images were ever disseminated nationally on milk cartons. Mofrad assumed his case had been forgotten.
mxAPR TIL of bematists of ancient Greek and Egypt, trained professionals who were hired to measure distance by counting their highly accurately spaced steps. The mathematician Eratosthenes worked out the circumference of the Earth using bematists' work.