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TIL About charities that take used pacemakers from deceased people and donate them to people in third world countries

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nWN0G TIL in the Congo Free State soldiers had to provide the severed hand of Congolese they shot as proof they weren’t misusing munition, but in practice the hands became a sort of currency since they allowed soldiers to save bullets, leading to them cutting the hand off living people
JYmZl TIL of this Black Hole that is 34 billion times the mass of the Sun, devours almost one Sun's worth of mass every day.
KYyy4 TIL about Hugh Thompson, an American helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. He landed between unarmed Vietnamese civilians and American soldiers during the My Lai Massacre, ordering his crew to fire on the American troops if they shot the civilians, saving many lives.
nYWP TIL a man’s AI watched and recreated blade runner. The recreation was taken down. Essentially: Warner DMCA’d an artificial reconstruction of a film about artificial intelligence being indistinguishable from humans, because it couldn’t distinguish between the simulation and the real thing.
X1Kr TIL The Segway inventor is still alive. The company’s owner (Jim Heselden) is the one who felt off the cliff and died in a Segway accident, not the inventor (Dean Kamen).