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TIL of Adermatoglyphia: The Genetic Disorder Of People Born Without Fingerprints

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X1YE TIL That Denmark has 5 pigs for every person, all because of bacon.
9YNx7 TIL Joseph Stalin’s granddaughter is a gun-loving antique shop owner in Portland, Oregon and a Buddhist.
ANlBd TIL On May 1901, Connecticut became the first state to pass speed limit laws, regulating motor vehicles to 12 mph within city limits and 15 mph on country roads.
KM56 TIL Acadiens expelled from eastern Canada mostly settled around the state of Louisiana around 1757. Their French pronounciations gradually slackened until ‘Acadien’ came to be pronounced 'A Cajun’.
WkgLL TIL astronaut Wally Schirra would take pictures of his frozen pee as it floated through space, glinting with sunlight. The pee-flakes looked like a beautiful starfield, he said. One astronomer saw a photo & asked what constellation it was, and Schirra said "Jocelyn, that's the constellation Urion."