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TIL you can get appendix stones, calcified deposits similar to bladder or kidney stones. They’re called appendicoliths.

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mx1wP TIL that in Beijing every citizen that has more than 11yo have to plant at least 3 trees per year to help the nature to grow more fast
8aNvL TIL that Eunice Shriver Kennedy, JFKs older sister, founded an athletics camp in 1962 for children with intellectual disabilities. The camp would go on to evolve into the Special Olympics.
wvko TIL The Walt Disney World Railroad has become one of the world’s busiest steam-powered railroads, with 3.7 million passengers served each year.
dDmVj TIL There is a mosque in Birmingham, England, built in 1988, that was originally named the President Saddam Hussein Mosque. Saddam Hussein had donated £2 million for its construction. In 2003, it was renamed the Jame Masjid Mosque in response to growing anti-Muslim sentiment after the 9/11 attacks.
d8jGK TIL Harry Melling (Dudley from Harry Potter) lost so much weight before the filming of The Deathly Hallows that he had to wear a fat suit