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TIL doctors are transplanting poop from healthy people into the stomachs of people with certain illnesses–and it is healing them at a rate of 91-98%.

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4Q6g TIL that a man spent 5 months in prison - unaware that his bail was $2.00
KO5EG TIL that ancient Babylon had suburbs. A 539 B.C cuneiform clay tablet stating: "Our property seems to me the most beautiful in the world. It is so close to Babylon that we enjoy all the advantages of the city, and yet when we come home we are away from the noise and dust"
kN75 TIL that Alexithymia, the inability to identify and describe your own emotions, affects roughly 10% of the general population.
BQrK TIL The Green Berets in Vietnam lived with and fought alongside local tribesmen called Montagnards and developed close bonds so strong that today, the biggest Montagnard population in the US is located in NC, near to the base that HQs the Green Berets.
VBjnp TIL In South Korea, a 16th-century letter written by a grieving pregnant widow to her late husband Yi Ŭngt'ae was found in his grave in 1998, resting on his chest.