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TIL Chinese doctors often bow to donors as a sign of thanks and respect before removing organs upon death

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X01yX TIL Stilton cheese cannot be legally produced in the village of Stilton.
1aylP TIL that Pope Gregory XIV made gambling on papal elections punishable by excommunication.
Wk8lB TIL that in 1944, the US Mint made cents out of recycled brass shells spent in the war effort. Steel was used in 1943, but due to complaints over confusion between the steel cent and coins like the dime, the mint was pressured to make this creative change the following year.
0wXA5 TIL about a set of twins that reunited after 37 years in 1979. Both were named Jim by their adoptive parents, loved carpentry and math, and pursued careers in security. Even stranger, they had each married a woman named Linda and then remarried a woman named Betty.
OVo1 TIL Danone yoghurt is marketed as Dannon in the US because it sounds more American