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TIL a neuroscientist plans to perform the world’s first brain transplant using a cryogenically frozen brain and a donor body

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YpMKv TIL O.J. Simpson's father was a drag queen who died of AIDS in 1986.
X0ZVr TIL about "Giant Mine" in NWT, Canada a mine that contains enough arsenic to kill every person on earth several times over. The arsenic has no half life so it will be just as deadly in 1,000,000 years. The government of Canada is currently trying to stop it from leaking into the environment.
jJ0M TIL the actor Thomas Kretschmann, who appeared in King Kong and The Pianist, made a month-long trek from East to West Germany to escape communism when he was 19. He crossed 4 borders with only a passport and the equivalent of $100 and lost part of his finger to frostbite.
6PAZ TIL that Kurt Vonnegut has said that the only reason to use a semicolon is “to show you’ve been to college.”
6JmX TIL: thorium reactors can use spent uranium rods and make their half-life only 300 years(instead of half a million), is very abundant, and a tiny ball of it would be enough to power my entire life, and only costs 100$.