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TIL a woman claimed three of her toes, which had been amputated 8 years before, miraculously grew back, prompting a man to create ShowMeTheToes.com to demand proof.

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neJAG TIL that in Germany, and some other countries, there's no punishment for escaping prison. Their law consider it's a basic human instinct to want to escape, so no extra time is added to the initial sentence if no other laws are broken in order to escape.
LjdQ TIL that there is an informal “Small Penis” rule, which authors use to protect themselves against libel lawsuits, by saying that a character they based off of someone else has a small penis, which stops most people from wanting to associate themselves with that character by suing the author.
XEoZQ TIL in 2013, Coca-Cola cancelled a promotion that paired randomly generated English and French words inside their caps until a lady received one that said "You Retard"
X0owj TIL in 1971 a Time Dilation experiment had 2 flights w/atomic clocks go around the world to prove Einstein's theories of relativity (time moves slower as you approach the speed of light, and/or when exposed to less gravity). The clocks gained 0.15 microseconds compared to the ground based clock.
XnP TIL: In 1986, Ronald Reagan signed an unfunded mandate (EMTAL Act) that requires emergency treatment for everyone, lack of health insurance notwithstanding, including undocumented immigrants.