Post * OoP5e — Curious Curator

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TIL about a woman who donated her kidney to her boss and was subsequently fired when she took too long to recover after the surgery

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KOmd4 TIL actor Ed Helms had open-heart surgery at age 13 to correct a severe congenital heart defect, which he described as supravalvular aortic and pulmonic stenosis. His surgery lasted nine hours and he was kept in intensive care unit for one week after

VM7yp TIL Tesgüino is a type of beer sacred to the native Tarahumara people of Mexico; they spend "at least 100 days per year directly concerned with [it]and much of this time under its influence or aftereffects."

GP4E TIL Icelandic has changed so little in the last 1,000 years that present-day Icelanders can read 12th Century texts without any difficulty.

x69g0 TIL that Radithor was a "medicine" sold in the 1920s that consisted of water with a bit of dissolved radium. One user, Eben Byers, drank so much of it that most of his jaw literally fell off.

WnZ9 TIL that an anti-Semitic nobleman once allegedly told Moses Montefiore that he had recently visited Japan, where “they have neither pigs nor Jews.” In response, Montefiore said that they should both go there so that it will have one of each.