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TIL London is technically a forest

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QJQaX TIL about Dr. Leonard Baily, who in 1984 transplanted a baboon heart into a dying infant known as Baby Fae. Baby Fae lived for another three weeks after the procedure.
PogO TIL that in 1934, Gerald Ford threatened to not play for the Michigan football team because the school would not let his teammate Willis Ward, who was black, play against Georgia Tech, which refused to share the field with a black player. Ward talked Ford out of it and Michigan won.
9Y9Z7 TIL that wine merchant Bill Sokolin accidentally broke a bottle of Thomas Jefferson's wine that was valued at $519,000.
Oo0DY TIL there is no antivenom for a blue-ringed octopus bite. However, if you can get a ventilator to breathe for you for 15 hours, you survive with no side effects.
1ajOV TIL that the 1912 presidential election, the Socialist candidate -Eugene V.Debs- received six percent of the popular vote which was the highest ever for a Socialist or Communist or any leftist in U.S. history.