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TIL that between 1995 and 2000, hundreds of girls in the US went through estrogen therapy that often causes serious long-term effects, to prevent them from growing taller because of perceived social harms of being “too tall”

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AROg TIL that there is a snail that is a snail whose poison is so complex that there is no anti venom for it. It also preys on fish and swallows them whole like a snake, also it has a biological harpoon.
epPeJ TIL That Eisenhower's Secretary of Agriculture would also become 13th President of the LDS Church, a position Mormon's believe makes one a prophet who can receive new revelation from God
1aWnP TIL that Apollo Astronaut James Irwin told his mother he was gonna be the first man on the moon when he was 12 years old, he ended up being the 8th.
JYgLj TIL William Walker worked under water below Winchester Cathedral for six hours a day for six years to restore the building's foundation. He worked in total darkness, using his bare hands to feel his way through the cloudy, muddy water.
rNe1W TIL due to hyperinflation in Venezuela, a lot of people have resorted to gold farming in Old School Runescape in order to make a living. It has since become so prevalent that the prices of heavily farmed items fluctuates dramatically whenever there's power cuts in the country.