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TIL the average NBA player has an wingspan-to-height ratio greater than the diagnostic criteria for Marfan syndrome; a disorder that results in abnormally long limbs.

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x6y90 TIL The Mercury astronaut candidate examinations involves sensory deprivation test of you being placed in a circular 8 foot deep tank of body temperature water without hallucinating. The normal reaction is for the subconscious mind to take over and one lapses into uncontrollable hallucinations
p8a0G TIL that in 1938 Walt Disney hosted an infamous Christmas party for the studio to celebrate the success of Snow White, but the partygoers (having worked so hard all year) let loose with extreme drunkenness, skinny dipping, and even wife-swapping.
rRKZ4 TIL about Tanya Savicheva, a Russian girl that cronicled in her diary the deaths of all her family members during the siege of Leningrad, ending with "Everyone is dead. Only Tanya is left".
PxMw TIL that in development for Star Treck TNG, Gene Roddenberry wanted Deanna Troi to have four breasts.
ADgmw TIL of Operation Foxley - an Allied plan to assassinate Hitler. It wasn't put into place because Hitler proved to be such a terrible strategist that the Allies decided the war would be over sooner with him in charge.