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TIL that many consider the Medieval period in Europe to have lasted from the fall of the Roman Empire to the fall of the Roman Empire

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R779 TIL Scientists have actually performed “succesful” head/brain transplants. “When the newly attached monkey woke up, he tried to bite off the finger of an attending doctor, and everyone cheered.”
BgwWD TIL Russia has a museum dedicated to the coldest inhabited place on Earth. Oymyakon, a village in Siberia, is known as the coldest inhabited place, with temperatures reaching -67.7°C (-89.9°F)
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ORLg TIL that biliverdin, the pigment that gives robin eggs their blue color, is the same pigment that makes bruises look blue.
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