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TIL the longest surgery to date was a 96-hour marathon to remove a 300-lb ovarian cyst from a 600-lb woman. Simply hacking it out would have killed her, so the surgeon gradually drained fluid from the cyst over the course of 4 days, shrinking it to 100 lb. and allowing for a successful removal.

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axGN TIL that a Cape Cod lighthouse vanished in 1925, only to reappear across the country in California in 2008…
YpMJB TIL Thailand used to have a prison called "Khuk Khi Kai," or "Chicken poop prison." The first floor of the prison contained prisoners, and the second floor was a large chicken coop. The grated floor ensured that prisoners were constantly subjected to chicken poop.
R7v01 TIL during the Black Death, the Adriatic port city of Ragusa was the first city to require mandatory 30-day isolation for sailors and traders in order to track infection. The Italians lengthened it to 40 days, or a “quaranta giorni”—hence, a quarantine.
gKd7 TIL a 50 year old man in Colorado got arrested for brutally killing two raccoons to avenge the death of his cat
R7OP4 TIL about Alexander Winton, who built and sold the first American-made gasoline car on March 24, 1898. The public was skeptical. "To advocate replacing the horse, which had served man through centuries, marked one as an imbecile."