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TIL many organ donation recipients report new traits and tendencies (such as food cravings) that they share with their donor.

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Rd69 TIL the Soviet government advised those working on the Chernobyl disaster to drink half a glass of vodka for every two hours in Chernobyl. The radiation was supposed to accumulate in the thyroid glands and the vodka was thought to help clean out the radiation.
ZjRp TIL With 25 billion hours (2.85 million years) of total game playtime, people have played call of duty for longer than the course of human existence.
8AKa TIL extraterrestrial life could be found in our lifetime through the detection of biosignature gases.
69mEY TIL that the average 30-something couple has sex 86 times per year
Vkpm TIL A man spent 3 years designing and creating “the perfect city’ using Sim City 3000. The city, named Magnasanti had the game’s maximum population of 6 million, no crime and no pollution.