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TIL Hawaii still has an active leper colony

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Z8xj4 TIL Steven Seagal once claimed he could get out of any chokehold. Answering the challenge in 1991, Judo practitioner Gene LeBell choked Seagal out, causing him to shit his pants.
d89EB TIL of the Continuum hypothesis : An hypothesis that has been proven unprovable under current mathematics.
lgpB TIL that when parents show favoritism or interfere in sibling conflict, those siblings are more likely to tend to conflict later in life, and less likely to collaborate in the care of the older parents.
dl1r TIL that tears cried for different reasons have different structures which are visible when viewed under a microscope.
grZoA TIL that the attine ant species invented agriculture long before humans, and have entire gardens of fungus in their nests