› added 4 years ago

153

TIL having shot a man in the head, Andrew Lyons's lawyer argued for manslaughter. The victim died when a surgeon transplanted the heart from the brain-dead victim: Andrew's bullet wasn't fatal. Following the case California issued a law allowing surgeons to transplant organs from brain-dead patients

Read more med.stanford.edu

via reddit.com

XEvXQ TIL Chess is a compulsory class for students in Armenia. Chess being popular since Soviet times, Armenia now has one of the highest Chess Grandmasters per capita in the world.
0EjM TIL: The Oakland Raiders gave JaMarcus Russell a blank DVD with the “gameplan” for homework. When asked what he thought, he lied and said “it looked good”
XbRk Til Douglas Williams, an administrator of Lie Detector Tests for the OK City PD, has spent the last 35 years trying to expose the fact that they don’t work and are easily defeated with a technique (explained in the vid) learned in under 2 minutes.
AEwB TIL child prodigy Michael Kearney learned how to read by 10 months old, graduated high school at age 6, earned an Anthropology degree at age 10, earned two Master’s degrees in Chemistry and Computer Science at ages 14 and 18 respectively, and earned his PhD in Chemistry at age 22
x6LVk TIL in the '40s theatrical producer John Reber promoted a plan to build two dams to change most of San Francisco Bay into two freshwater lakes. He got a lot of support, but the US Army Corps of Engineers built a giant working model of the bay to show how this plan was a terrible idea