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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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awoXy TIL of the USS Mason, the only WWII destroyer with an all-black enlisted crew
BrB7L TIL that in 1957, 69% of Americans polled by Gallop reported that religion was increasing in influence; by the late 1960s the figure was less than 20%.
oB1Bo TIL that if an Icelandic horse ever leaves Iceland, it is banished from the country forever