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TIL about Phossy Jaw, an industrial disease that essentially rotted matchstick workers' bones from the inside out.

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OomYY TIL that Helen Keller learned how to talk through the work of her teacher, Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught her by placing one of Anne’s fingers over Sullivan’s throat, one over her mouth, and one on her nose so that she could feel the vibrations of all the different letters and replicate them herself
9YBnm TIL anchovies completely dissolve when cooked, including the bones.
9EKD TIL Harriet the Tortoise died in an Australian zoo at the age of 176. She was born before the light bulb (not just Edison’s) and the first power plant. Her death was announced on CNN. She was brought back from the Galapagos by a young scientist named Charles Darwin.
0wgwp TIL Tiger Woods is only 1/16th African-American and 75% Asian.
AKVx TIL of a town in Kazakhstan, residents of which suffer from an unkown anomaly: they fall asleep in broad daylight and suffer from hallucinations, dizziness, weakness and memory loss. Scientists call is a ‘sleep epidemic’ and can’t explain the reasons for this phenomenon.