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TIL: “Doctors can use the foreskins of circumcised infants to grow skin for burn victims. Just one foreskin can create 23,000 square meters of skin”

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OodWR TIL about Flordelis, a Brazilian pastor and congresswoman. She married one of her 51 adopted children in 1998 and then in 2020 was charged with orchestrating his murder, at the hands of two more of her adopted children
M51V TIL That serial killer Jake Bird placed a “Bird Hex” on those attending/working his court trial, claiming “Mark my words, you will die before I do.” 6 People died following the case.
l9Ar TIL That the Dominican Republic, led by dictator Rafael Trujillo, offered to accept between 50,000 and 100,000 Jewish refugees in 1938. Only 645 made it and upon arrival, every new Jewish settler was given 80 acres of land, 10 cows, a mule and a horse.
b96pZ TIL: That Sloths have been around for 64 million years
R7g98 TIL there are an estimated 550 wild parrots living in NYC that were accidentally released from a shipment at JFK airport in the late 60s