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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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l1AB TIL in 1990, a 15-yo Kuwaiti girl testified to US Congress that Kuwaiti babies were being taken out of their incubators by Iraqi soldiers and left to die. It was later revealed that she was the daughter of an ambassador & that her testimony was part of a PR campaign to sell the war to the public.
JYagk TIL in 2004, Seth Putnam -- vocalist of the grindcore band Anal C**t, whose offensive song titles included "You're Gay" and "You're in a Coma" -- overdosed and ironically lapsed into a brief coma. He later stated that actually being in a coma "was just as gay [and] fuckin' stupid as I wrote it was."
rPPx TIL that anyone who removes Hawaiian rocks from the islands is said to be cursed. Every year people mail back thousands of pounds of rock, sand, and shells to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, many with reports of how their lives were ruined by the curse.
VBk8m TIL that elephants have breasts just like humans
VBQDm TIL on 9/11, the famous ice skating rink at Chelsea Piers in NYC was turned into a makeshift morgue