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TIL a man suffered a flash fire in his chest cavity during emergency heart surgery caused by supplemental oxygen leaking from a ruptured lung.

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awLEo TIL in 2008, Nebraska's new "Safe Haven" laws allowing babies to be abandoned anonymously without fear of prosecution had to be changed after dozens of older children were abandoned within the first few months -- none of whom were babies. The law was revised to include an age limit of one year.
N7WM8 TIL that the marriage of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is the longest presidential marriage in US history. They had already been married for 30 years when Carter was sworn in as president in 1977.
aEBo TIL Mika Brzezinski, an MSNBC News Anchor, refused to read a report about Paris Hilton’s release from jail on National Television and ranking it over a story on the Iraq War. Then after repeatingly being pressured to do the story, she attempted to light the script on fire on the air.
bJEa TIL Bacteria can absorb genetic material from dead bacteria and integrate them into their own genome. So if a bacterium eats the corpse of one which has adapted to colder temperatures, it will gain that resistance to cold as well.
yVPXw TIL in the 1970s, North Korea ordered and received 1000 Volvo 144s from Sweden. And never paid. To date, it is the largest successful car heist in history.