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TIL that Brad Pitt suffers from Prosopagnosia (Face Blindness)

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78rjr TIL that trappist cheese is cheese that is made by monks. Many monastaries made their own cheese so that they could feed themselves and sell it. This practice has origins in 18th century France.
pBRO TIL that camels don’t store water in their humps. They store fat, and tapping those reserves actually causes a net loss of hydration. They can survive for so long in the desert because of their ovular blood cells, relatively dry urine and feces, and nostrils that recycle water vapor
4nX6 TIL that Rudolf Hess was the sole inmate of an entire prison for over 20 years.
W4bY TIL that we actually have photographs showing entire star systems being warped in space-time by immense gravitational force. These Gravitational Lenses appear to us a circular bubble of stars and galaxies, and prove Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.
E1Eao TIL that the show Scrubs has one of the most accurate portrayals of the actual way a hospital runs and all of its medical cases are taken from real life medical cases.