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TIL cheetahs are so genetically similar to one another that their organs can be freely transplanted between any members of their species without the presence of immunosuppression.

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E1gnX TIL William Kamkwamba, after being forced to quit school at 14 due to poverty, taught himself to build windmills out of trash, using books from a local library, transformed his village with electricity and became an international celebrity. Receiving a scholarship to Dartmouth and graduating in 2014
wvaP TIL of Locksmith Scam: people using Google Ads to advertise $15 service, then claiming the service is harder than they thought, bumping the price to $350
wLk67 TIL Many American movie villains have British accents, specifically Queen's English, because Americans associate that accent with high intellect and low morals.
R5nb6 TIL that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes) took a single wicket during his brief first class Cricket career - that of the famed W. G. Grace - and he was so elated at the achievement that he wrote a poem about it.
R7J68 TIL: In 2005, because of a programming error, a virtual plague spread through World of Warcraft. The servers had to be shut down because NPCs and players killed off entire in-game cities. Researchers of disease analyzed and studied the event as a model for the spread of plague IRL.