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Til that an Italian man named Gino Strada has performed 30,000 operations in places such as Sudan, Cambodia and Afghanistan. All free of charge.

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N7JB1 TIL: The first-ever solar-powered satellite, Vanguard 1, is "the oldest human-made object still in orbit" (plus some of its launch rocket). Launched in 1958, it stopped talking in 1964 but continues orbiting. The three sats older than it (Sputniks 1 & 2, Explorer 1) are no longer in orbit.
v6eB TIL that if the distance between a woman’s clitoris and vagina is greater than 3 cm (1.18 inches), she has a lower chance of having an orgasm through intercourse alone.
mx7ex TIL that psychedelic therapy using substances like LSD and the active compounds in magic mushrooms and peyote cactus has flourished after decades of prohibition and has helped people with such mental disorders as obsessive-compulsive disorder, PTSD, alcoholism, depression, and cluster headaches.
jNWlp TIL the Okinawa Islands were home to the Ryukyu Kingdom, which was culturally & politically distinct from Japan. Though its languages were related (though unintelligible to) Japanese, they were seen as a foreign people with a different culture, before it was annexed into Japan & mostly assimilated.
8Wyb TIL There is a species of firefly in the U.S.’s Great Smokey Mountains that synchronize their flashing patterns so that they all light up at the same time.