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TIL There’s a $75k surgery to make you taller (info in comments)

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b6raN TIL There was a 26-year-old founder of the Farm Bank game (Ciftlik Bank in Turkish), Mehmet Aydin, who fled the country after scamming tens of thousands of people who invested in the game out of pocket for more than $100,000,000.
Z8kBQ TIL the term "does not compute" originated as a catch phrase on the 1964 science fiction sitcom "My Living Doll"
BrANe TIL that if you contract and recover from the measles you have a 1/600 chance as a baby or 1/10000 chance that after 6-15 years you can suffer a condition that causes brain inflammation that is terminal.
d8j4Z TIL that in 2001 a New York couple used a submersible to be married two and a half miles underwater, on the wreck of the Titanic
B9Qb TIL Marilyn Monroe’s mother was schizophrenic, which caused Marilyn to live in several foster homes and orphanages. In two of these, she was sexually assaulted by the foster father. When she was 16, her foster family married her off to keep her from going back to foster care when they moved