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TIL that human kidneys can be printed using 3D printers and living cells to make a transplantable organ.

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GnJ7 TIL In 1933 Nazis gave 60,000 Zionist Jews $100,000,000 dollars (worth $1.6 billion in 2009) and helped them settle in Palestine.
8eQnK TIL about a man named Herostratus who burned down the second Temple of Artemis at Epheseus in 356 BC to become famous. He was tortured and executed for it, and authorities in the region made mentioning his name punishable by death.
nej79 TIL of the Orgone Accumulator, a device sold in the 1950s to allow a person sitting inside to attract orgone, a massless 'healing energy'. The FDA noted that one purchaser, a college professor, knew it was "phony" but found it "helpful because his wife sat quietly in it for four hours every day."
oB8w7 TIL that "daddy longlegs" are actually NOT the most venomous spider on earth. In fact they are neither venomous nor spiders.
d8XWr TIL along with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bombing of Tokyo was just as bad but often overlooked. Over 100,000 people were killed, several times that number injured, and 1,000,000 displaced in a napalm-filled, incendiary bomb attack by 334 low-flying B-29 bombers.