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TIL that many women from the victorian era made jewelry from insects

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GAg6G TIL about Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) or Tooth-in-Eye Surgery. Pioneered in the 1960s, where surgeons would put a tooth in a blind person's eye and it can restore sight. It still happens to this day
epalk TIL that the player who scored the winning goal in the US's 1–0 win over England at the 1950 FIFA World Cup was a Haitian dish-washer
OGOlL TIL that while filming "Fitzcarraldo" in the Amazon Rainforest, director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski feuded so much that the chief of the Machiguenga tribe, whose members were used as extras, asked if they should kill Kinski, though Herzog declined, as he needed the actor to finish the film
d8kad TIL A&W introduced a burger that was bigger and less expensive than McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, but it failed because customers assumed 1/3 was less than 1/4.
ZKxa TIL: In Arkansas you can legally catch and keep a wild fox