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TIL that the craving to eat non-nutritive things like ice, chalk and dirt is symptomatic of a condition/disorder called pica

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E10mo TIL of Story Musgrave, the most Formally Educated Astronaut, despite being a HS Dropout . He has BAs in Mathmatics, Statistics, and Chemistry; a MBA; a MS in Physiology and Biophysics; a MD (surgery); and a MA in Literature. He's also the only astronaut to have flown on all 5 Space Shuttles.
N1v1 TIL that Hugh Hefner is credited for breaking the color barrier in stand up comedy when he hired African American comedian Dick Gregory to perform at the Playboy Club in Chicago.
OGVK6 TIL that winter term graduates at Middlebury College in Vermont ski down a mountain into their own graduation ceremony
Lk4Nr TIL that there is a rare condition called tetrachromacy, which allows some people, mostly women, to see 100 million different colors, due to having four color receptors. This is far more than the 1 million shades normal people can see with their 3 color receptors.
Wk7D8 TIL Denzel Washington has been in over 50 films throughout a career spanning three decades, but next year's The Equalizer 2 will be his first sequel