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TIL Every year about 10,000 containers fall off ships to the sea

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Bg8NW TIL A surgeon in the UK used an argon beam to brand his initials onto transplanted livers of two of his patients
Yp5ev TIL that a British man legally changed his name to James Bond and all its film titles up to Casino Royale as middle name. At 69 words, it was one of the longest recorded name in the world.
ADOg TIL that a CD of monks singing Gregorian chant made it to #3 on the Billboard 200
7ro4L TIL that 20 years after losing his boxing World Heavyweight Championship, George Foreman at age 45 regained the title by knocking out the 26-year-old undefeated heavyweight champion Michael Moorer in the 10th round
yeya TIL Uruguay’s president lives in a farm-house with no servants. Has two security guards. Donates 90 percent of his salary, has a net worth of $1,800, and drives a 1987 VW Beetle. He has sold the seaside presidential palaces, advocates for legalizing marijuana, and same-sex marriage.