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TIL In 2014 a New York hospital came under fire after incorrectly declaring a woman as brain dead following a drug overdose. The woman awoke shortly after being taken to the operating room for organ harvesting.

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9YgDm TIL The United States Government encouraged Nazis to emigrate to the states and compensated them in exchange for foreign intelligence. Many of them were war criminals, yet they faced little to no punishment and were allowed to live out the rest of their lives in America
7DGP TIL When Five Guys opened up, they received an order from the Pentagon. When Five Guys asked what time they were going to pick up the order, an admiral got on the phone and told them “everyone delivers to the Pentagon.” Five Guys then put up a banner that read “ABSOLUTELY NO DELIVERY.”
B6Or TIL Netflix, iTunes, Hulu and Amazon have all refused to stream the 200th and 201st episode of South Park due to the appearance of Muhammad in them. They are currently unavailable to watch anywhere legally as South Park was also forced to partially censor the episodes on the DVD releases.
J1BPQ TIL that the ancient city of Troy was believed to be purely mythological until its ruins were discovered in the 19th century
jOJj TIL the Mona Lisa used to have eyebrows, but they were rubbed off through years of rough cleaning.