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TIL A surgeon in the UK used an argon beam to brand his initials onto transplanted livers of two of his patients

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6EKlY TIL the microstate of San Marino has the oldest constitution still being used. It was ratified in 1600, and the US Constitution is the oldest for a sovereign country, and it was ratified on June 21, 1788.
gMvkW TIL that the hymen and virginity are not linked, a woman's first time doesn't have to involve any pain at all, and that the concept of physical proof of virginity is basically not a thing.
lZ0G TIL The pineapple “fruit” is not really a fruit but a mass of individual berries fused to the central stalk.
e0WBD TIL that Hawaii's statehood was delayed for several decades because of consistent opposition by the "Solid South" (southern states) who refused to tolerate non-white Congressmen
VMGEp TIL of Six Californias, a proposed initiative in 2016 to split California into six separate states: Jefferson, North California, Silicon Valley, Central California, West California, and South California. The initiative failed to meet the required signatures to make the ballot.