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TIL Iran is the only country where it’s legal to sell your organs, so demand always meets supply. A kidney is worth $231 USD and the government contributes part of the cost.

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XEMMr TIL that when Lady Astor called Winston Churchill “disgustingly drunk”, Churchill replied, “My dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly”
Z0K4 TIL that according to a principle in evolutionary biology know as “Foster’s Rule” or the “Island Rule”, members of a species get smaller or bigger depending on the resources available in the environment, leading to miniature island versions of elephants, mammoths, hippos, deer, and others.
wbBo TIL of the ‘loneliest organism’ in the world. A single, lone cycad tree, the dominant tree during the dinosaur era, was discovered in Africa in 1895. They have yet to find a mate to pollinate it.
grdVy TIL Queen Elizabeth II was certified truck mechanic
1gBd TIL Teddy Roosevelt, when made Police Commissioner of New York City, inherited a vastly corrupt police force. In order to make sure officers weren’t slacking off or performing corrupt activities, he himself would walk their beats most nights and early mornings.