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TIL cracking your knuckles does not cause arthritis or increase your risk

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xVQP7 TIL that a rubber chicken sings better than me
4Xw6N TIL that during the Christmas of 1819, King George III - who by then was completely blind, increasingly deaf, had dementia, was in pain from rheumatism and suffering from another bout of insanity - spoke nonsense for 58 hours.
XEdKr TIL United Airlines flight 232—which crashed in Iowa in 1989—was operating on "Children's Day," a promotion that allowed kids to fly for only 1-cent. Because of this, there were 52 children and 8 infants on board—many traveling by themselves. 11 children, including one 'lap' child, were killed.
rRmXx TIL plants may have a form of vision/sight, and one plant in particular, Boquila trifoliolata, can change its leaf size, color, and shape to match living and/or artificial plants on which it is climbing.
9YKA7 TIL Belgium is the world’s largest kangaroo meat importer. Sad part is that they’re taken down quiet cruelly: “Each year, about 1.6 million kangaroos are hunted and killed in particularly cruel conditions.”