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TIL surgeons hold scissors with their thumb and ring fingers.

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m1ggY TIL on the US West Coast, particularly Northern California, it's more common to play "Ro-Sham-Bo", instead of "Rock-Paper-Scissors".
5Kdr TIL to join The 300 Club, when the outside temperature at the South Pole is less than -73C (-100F), it’s traditional to get in a sauna at 93C (200F) and then run around the South Pole naked. Thus experiencing a 300 degree Fahrenheit temperature difference.
x6pOg TIL of Project Artichoke which was a mind control program from the intelligence divisions of the Army, Navy, Air Force and FBI. The goal was to determine if someone could involuntarily be made to perform an act of assassination. It also studied forced addiction to morphine, hypnosis, and amnesia.
Z8gNY TIL a fossilised tooth of an extinct species of platypus was found in Queensland. Based on the tooth's size, researchers estimate the platypus would have been about twice as large as today's platypus & dubbed it "platypus-zilla".
nWa8o TIL that there is a church in London called "St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe." It got that name because it was located near a royal storehouse, which was then called a wardrobe. William Shakespeare was listed as a member.