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TIL Dave Chappelle’s maternal grandfather was a blind Caucasian who was raised to believe that he was African-American. Mirroring his famous white supremacist skit.

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4XrR5 TIL about Mongolian surgeon Sergelen Orgoi who developed low cost liver transplant technique which cost only 3-5k usd only.
wBdW TIL Professor David Nutt intends to bring a safer, hangover-free version of alcohol called Alcosynth into the market
1arVO TIL: The name "Scotch Tape" was used as an insult to the inventor while he was inventing Masking Tape. 'Scotch' being derogatory slang for cheap or thrifty. He then went on to create Scotch Tape, and the name stuck.
Arkw TIL that the Titanic sistership RMS Olympic was told not to go rescue Titanic survivors, as “it would cause panic amongst the survivors of the disaster to see a virtual mirror-image of the Titanic appear and ask them to board”…
o1XL TIL that Canada qualified for the FIFA World Cup only once: in 1986. It placed 23rd out of 24 teams.