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TIL Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning both use their middle names as their given names as per family tradition.

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7PQx TIL There was once a doctor who performed a xenotransplantation on a baby that sufferd fom heart disease by transplanting a baboon heart. The baby died. When asked why he didn’t use a heart from an evolutionary closer animal, he replied “I do not believe in evolution”
XEBdR TIL In 1961, a handful of the world's top scientists gathered at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, to give Dolphins LSD. They noted as soon as the dolphin on LSD had contact with another intelligent mammal, it wouldn't shut up.
Eglw TIL Suspended animation is a surgical technique in which the patient’s body temperature is lowered to about 55F (18C) causing breathing and blood flow to halt. At this point the surgeon has ~45min to operate before any brain damage occurs.
v1bkr TIL that in 2018, an 18-year-old memorized the order of a shuffled deck of 52 cards in 12.74 seconds.
6ENA7 TIL Robert Williams, a Ford assembly line worker, is the first human in history to have been killed by a robot. He was hit by a robotic arm in 1979.