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TIL A boy whose whole body looked like an open wound because of a genetic condition which led his skin to be paperthin, had a skin sample taken, its DNA repaired, & the modified skin cells grown to make skin grafts totalling 0.85 sq m. He now leads a normal life.

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mDpE TIL Babe Ruth once tried cricket. Finding the cricket stance uncomfortable he decided to use his baseball stance. He destroyed the bat and sent the ball flying multiple times, but lost interest in the sport after he heard what the best cricket batsmen were paid: a mere $40 a week.
4kala TIL Humans have the largest penis-to-body-mass ratio among primates & it has over 40 muscles and 4,000 nerve endings, making it highly sensitive.It has a unique "reflex" that allows it to become erect without conscious thought.
b6pYj TIL that when the US Navy attempted the first flight from the US mainland to Hawaii, one of the two seaplanes ran out of fuel and landed in the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from the destination. The crew created crude sails from fabric wings, and sailed the plane to Hawaii.
WkaoB TIL Naukan is a deserted Yupik village in Russia, once the easternmost settlement in the Eurasian continent. The eviction of the 400 indigenous inhabitants took place in 1954 with the objective of a possible military confrontation with the United States
ydkw TIL John Henry’s famous race against the steam drill really did happen in 1870. He was able to win because the machine kept getting hung up and lost time.