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TIL That old methods of cataract surgery involved somebody sucking it out with a hollow needle.

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9d4D TIL that it is possible for a human to become a Chimera by fusing with his/her fraternal twin in the womb. If it occurs early enough, each twin will claim body parts as his/her own, allowing a single person to be made up of two genetically different individuals.
m1KQo TIL that the grandfather of actor Tom Felton (Draco from Harry Potter) is Nigel Anstey - a geophysicist who has made major contributions to seismic exploration, which are the foundations for many of the techniques used in today's oil and gas exploration. Nigel was born in 1927 and is still alive.
GbXJ TIL: Man Stopped Growing At Six Months Old Is Now 21 And Only 23 Inches Tall
jN6Nv TIL that Abercrombie & Fitch existed in 1917 and one of their products was a women's grey wool suit
wreo TIL that Ratko Mladić, or the “Butcher of Bosnia”, was most likely highly influenced by the apparent ‘suicide’ of his daughter in committing the “worst crime on European soil since the WWII”: the Srebrenica Massacre where 8,400 people died