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TIL Some tumors can contain pockets of hair, teeth & very rarely, grow more complex organs such as eyes, feet, hands as well as other limbs.

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XxX TIL that of the top 8 largest rivers, by volume of water, the Amazon River is bigger than all the others combined.
MEaV TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower said “The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants…It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals…We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”
64bm TIL that on average 22 vets in the US commit suicide per DAY. The average age of these vets is 60, most likely making them veterans of the Vietnam War.
75E7 TIL the process of seppuku, suicide by disemboweling to preserve honor, eventually became so ritualized that the abdominal cut was not even needed. The samurai merely reached for a fan instead of a knife, and doing so signaled the merciful beheading strike by the samurai’s assistant.
mLXx TIL During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson threatened CBS News that if it didn’t ‘cleaned up its act,’ after showing US Marines burning villages, the White House would 'go public’ with the reporter’s alleged “communist ties.”