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TIL that heavy water tastes sweet

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yQK5v TIL of a surgery with a 300% mortality rate. During an amputation, Dr. Robert Liston accidentally cut his assistant's fingers off and later slashed an observer's coat. The observer, thinking he'd been stabbed, dropped dead of shock, and the patient and assistant died afterwards of infected wounds.
pY5XG TIL of the Wildrake diving bell accident where two saturation divers became trapped in the bell at 522ft (159m) when both the lift & umbilical, carry power & hot water, became detached. Before rescue could get to them, they died of hypothermia.
895G TIL When Bono was 14, his mother died at her father’s funeral
b6vLN TIL that when a cat has a flat face (such as a Persian), that is actually a deformity. Breeders, however, are able to find ways of altering the cat’s genetics by choosing who they breed with. They do this because so many people gravitate to the smushed in face.
Jkm4 TIL there is a super highway between New York and London being proposed that would cross the Bering Strait.