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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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9YAg6 TIL that a Polish environmental charity put a SIM card in a GPS tracker to follow the migratory pattern of a white stork. They lost track of the stork and later received a phone bill for $2,700; someone in Sudan had taken the SIM from the tracker and made over 20 hours of calls.
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