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TIL of tree man syndrome, a rare gene mutation that makes people highly susceptible to HPV and causes severe deformity.

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oBGPR TIL that as of May of this year, there are still two survivors of the polio epidemic living in the US that depend on iron lungs
KOv4R TIL of gyandromorphism: an occurence in nature in which an organism has both male and female characteristics in one body; sometimes surfacing as male on one half of the body and female on the other.
5VXm9 TIL that lower class Germans are stereotyped as giving their children names that sound exotic in German, such as “Kevin.” Prejudice against people with such names is strong enough that the term “Kevinism” was coined to describe it.
gKp7 TIL Geneticists have figured out the time that evolving humans lost their primate body hair by using mitochondrial DNA to calculate the date that head lice evolution diverged from that of public lice.
xVeaD TIL The more scars a Jalapeno has the Hotter the Jalapeno will be. Also applies to other peppers.