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TIL Harrison Ford flew to France to give Roman Polanski his Oscar

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k0d TIL that Adolf Hitler wrote a letter from jail begging a Mercedez-Benz dealership for a car loan. The letter was found at a flea market.
4k4mJ TIL of the concept of a Savior Sibling, a child who is conceived in order to provide a stem cell transplant to a sibling that is affected with a fatal disease
RD98 TIL When threatened, the hairy frog, or “horror frog,” intentionally breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture through the frog’s toe pads to become defensive weapons.
MD5K TIL, in 1999, a Florida man auctioned his kidney on Ebay. The post read “You can choose either kidney. Buyer pays all transplant and medical costs. Of course only one for sale, as I need the other one to live. Serious bids only.” The bids reached $5.7 million before the company abruptly ended it.
DQxRJ TIL one of the earliest cetaceans was land-dwelling and had four long legs.