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TIL In 2019, a bird was discovered which was thought to be a new species. It was actually a seagull covered in curry sauce.

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eLJ4 TIL about Sonny Graham, who received a heart transplant from a suicide victim, then married the donor’s widow, then committed suicide in similar circumstances.
gED8 TIL On 9/11, when all transport out of the city was shut down, citizen boat owners managed to transport over 500k people from Manhattan Island in an amazing act known as the “9/11 Boatlift”
pME4 TIL 42 year old New York Mets pitcher Bartolo Colon used stem cells to regenerate broken tissue in his throwing arm. He is the oldest pitcher in the MLB.
9wVrB TIL that higher doses of highly radioactive iodine-131 are safer than moderate doses, since at high doses the element kills human cells outright, while at lower doses it causes mutations instead, thus causing thyroid cancer
w6BW TIL Arkham Asylum was named after Arkham, Massachusetts, the fictional town central to many H.P. Lovecraft stories.