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TIL of the 870 million firearms in the world, 100 million are AK 47's

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4195 TIL that surgeon Robert J. White transplanted the head of a monkey onto the body of another monkey, the monkey could still hear, smell, taste, eat and follow objects with its eyes and lived for nine days.
P1N5e TIL Australian James Harrison learned that his blood contained a rare antibody capable of treating Rhesus disease, a condition causing miscarriages and infant deaths. Over six decades, Harrison's plasma donations are estimated to have saved over 2.4 million babies.
8ee7G TIL about “Bonin English” — a dialect that is an English/Japanese fusion, spoken on the Ogasawara Islands. Previously uninhabited, the islands’ first modern inhabitants were anglophones in the 19th century. The islands went back and forth between the UK, US, and Japan. Today, they are part of Japan.
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rRe50 TIL that while filming Batman and Robin the beautiful Alicia Silverstone was referred to as “Fatgirl” by both critics and people on the production end. A Storyboard artist even drew a nasty cartoon of her as an “inside joke.”