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Me7Wa TIL Willie Nelson was so broke in 1961 that he offered to sell "Hello Walls" to Faron Young for $500. Young loaned him the $500 instead, allowing Nelson to keep the publishing rights. Less than two months later Nelson would French kiss Young in appreciation
5mnR TIL a genetic disease called Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva causes human tissue to turn into bone. “Sufferers are slowly imprisoned by their own skeletons.”
Z90B TIL that a lost wallet is more likely to be returned if you have a photo of a baby in it. In a 2009 study, 88% of wallets with a baby photo were returned, followed by wallets with a photo of a puppy (53%), family (48%) and an old couple (28%). Only 15% of control wallets were returned.
l7M97 TIL there were "hundreds of thousands of instances of torture" by the French military in Algeria during the Algerian War.
njxo TIL There is a village in Ireland called Muff, and they have their own diving club.