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TIL that Sir Terry Pratchett wrote lines for an Oblivion mod

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eW64 TIL that when you receive a kidney transplant, your own kidney isn’t removed. It usually stays where it is and a third kidney is placed in your pelvis.
OWdY TIL that Huntington Hartford inherited the equivalent of $1.3 Billion at age 12, and ended up bankrupt, through a combination of bad business decisions, art patronship, and an exceptionally lavish lifestyle
GYBw4 TIL Kate Bush topped the UK charts at just 19 y/o with her debut single 'Wuthering Heights', the first female artist to do so with a self-written song, and in 2016 she had 8 albums in the UK Top 40 simultaneously, the third-most for any artist, behind only Elvis and the Beatles.
LBod TIL that of the approximately 1.7 million interracial crimes committed in the U.S. each year, 90 percent are committed by blacks against whites.
Z8XrD TIL that standard QWERTY keyboards are used in China. Chinese users are familiar with the sounds that Latin letters make, and they type in the way their characters sound when spoken out loud. Software then translates the sound they typed into a Chinese character.