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TIL of a woman born with 3 fingers on her right hand. After a tragic accident, she lost her right hand and later developed a phantom limb…with 5 fingers.

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d8DoZ TIL that in 1871 Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and Ohio politician defending a man accused of murder, accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself. His client was cleared.
wrM8 TIL due to having no tools, an Inuit man once shat in his hand, shaped it into a knife as it froze, then used it to kill and skin a dog and make a sled out of its bones. He then strapped another dog to the sled so he could travel through a blizzard.
PYeOJ TIL there has not been a single occurrence of a wild killer whale killing a human
QrxX TIL that NASA no longer has the original recording of the moon landing because it has been recorded over and reused. NASA admitted it back in 2006
Z8v9Q TIL the UK has their own version of the Ivy League called the Golden Triangle which has some of the best colleges in the world