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TIL the Occupy Movement has launched the Rollling Jubilee and is buying debt for pennies on the dollar and canceling it.

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ep4Eb TIL Rotationplasty is a surgical procedure where, in case of bone tumor, they remove a child's lower leg, rotate it 180 degree and attach it to a thigh bone in a way that makes an ankle joint serve as a "new knee". It looks like having one leg shorter and rotated back.
m1djv TIL German mental calculator Gert Mittring broke the world record for taking roots when he successfully calculated the 89247th root of a million-digit number.
EE7 TIL that British people used to have American sounding accents, not the other way around
LQO59 TIL that Penguins as we know them were named thus because they looked remarkably similar to Pinguinus Impennis. There's no relation. The OG Pinguinus Impennis were hunted to extinction in 1844.
Lpx0 TIL the Mathematical proof that 1+1=2 takes 162 pages Principia Mathematica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia