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TIL that coral can be an excellent material for a bone graft and is widely accepted by the body post-op

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8a6x4 TIL that for a period of time in 2010, Ozzy Osbourne was the health columnist in the British Sunday Times
wLDYW TIL Spider-Man's trademark web-swinging technique in "The Amazing Spider-Man" was done using practical effects instead of the cgi used in the previous films. They built a giant rig that allowed a stuntman to swing from a thin cable attached to a winch over and through the real streets of NYC.
R7JD8 TIL: That Anthropologist Rudolf Martin discovered there are actually 16 different eye colors and created the "Martin Scale", which was then expanded to 20 different eye colors, called the "Martin-Schultz Scale".
OGGRa TIL The Great Republic Of Rough And Ready, California was a town that seceded from the Union for 3 months in 1850 and was named after 12th US president "Old Rough and Ready" Zachary Taylor.
e0E84 As the coronavirus pandemic continues, many people are developing new sleep patterns, which—in addition to stress about the virus—is altering their dreams