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TIL that if you have a bone marrow transplant, your blood can have the donor’s DNA and your salival and hair DNA will be your own. It has caused people to be wrongly arrested based on DNA evidence.

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6E1dQ TIL In the 1950s, Catholic Priest Gerald Fitzgerald proposed banishing all sexually predatory priests to a remote island for life
oRy8L TIL that the 18th century Badminton Cabinet is the most expensive piece of furniture ever sold at $36.7 million (2004). It is a Florentine ebony chest, inlaid with hard and semiprecious stones commissioned in 1726 by Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, at the age of 19
mxD9y TIL that On average, we lose 50 to 100 strands of hair a day from the scalp. Also, Human facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.
VMBPD TIL a vigilante in Bristol, England has been sneaking out at night for 10 years to fix grammar and punctuation errors on signs such as “Herberts the Bakery,” using stickers and an eight-foot-long tool he calls the “apostrophizer.”
WMwB TIL that there is a fish called Monkfish that can prey on small seabirds