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TIL during kidney transplants, the bad kidneys are not usually removed. Instead, the new kidney is put into the pelvis.

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klxE TIL according to the FBI’s 2007 statistics, interracial violent crime is at least 8x more likely to be black on white than white on black. The study found over 430,000 instances of black on white robberies, murders, assaults, etc., compared to about 55,000 white on black violent crimes
EgVW7 TIL of the Ben Franklin Effect, "a psychological phenomenon in which people like someone more after doing a favor for them". The opposite is also true, people come to dislike others to whom they have done wrong
R8D8 TIL That out of the top 30 best selling games of all time, you need to go to #9 before you find a non-Nintendo product
9YAB7 TIL U.S. WWII internment camps didn't just hold American Japanese. U.S. citizens of Italian, Irish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Finnish ancestry; most arrested and detained as “Germans.”
nemW TIL The line of emperors in Japan has continued since 680 BC