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TIL When you get a Kidney transplant, they leave your original kidneys in and put the 3rd Kidney in your pelvis.

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pvKO TIL Apollo 14 commander Alan Shephard once said “If somebody’d said before the flight, ‘Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?’ I would have say, 'No, no way.’ But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.”
AjG7 TIL In Stringtown, Oklahoma, population 400, 76 percent of the town’s 2013 budget came from traffic tickets. After a state investigation into excessive speed trapping the town’s police department was disbanded.
rvjo TIL of a family falsely accused of abusing their son. Following british law, all their kids were forcibly put up for adoption. They are not allowed to see them, even after being proven innocent. When she got pregnant again, they had to move to Ireland so their child would not be taken away at birth.
wEjY TIL that hand-warmers are filled with iron, and the heat comes from the process of the iron turning into rust when exposed to oxygen
RAb9 TIL the facebook android app can record sound & video from your phone, at any time, without your consent