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TIL during a kidney transplant the damaged kidneys are generally not removed, the new kidney is simply placed in a different location.

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KOmlR TIL Alfred Hitchcock owned the rights to his classic films Vertigo, Rear Window, Rope, The Trouble with Harry, and The Man Who Knew Too Much. He refused to allow them to be distributed or re-released for over two decades; they were known as the "Forbidden Five" until three years after his death.
AwP7 TIL that ancient Assyrian soldiers reportedly suffered hauntings and visions of the men they killed in battle, suggesting the earliest written example of PTSD sufferers.
pXYp TIL of Moe Berg, a professional baseball player who served as a spy for the U.S. during WWII. He attended a lecture by Werner Heisenberg under the orders to shoot Heisenberg if he made any indication that the Germans were close to making an atomic bomb.
M7DL8 TIL: That the term "action figure" was first coined by Hasbro in 1964, to market their G.I. Joe figure to boys who refused to play with "dolls", a term primarily associated as a girl's toy.
78D5x TIL That in the 1980s, a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.