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TIL of of Chloe Phillips-Harris, who was denied access to Kazakhstan in 2016 under the guise that New Zealand did not exist because the map in the detention room did not include it

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x6ND7 TIL Young children can regenerate removed fingertips
N7R7Q TIL under the Geneva conventions Military surgeons are required to treat wounded enemy soldiers equal to allied troops
kKL1 TIL Because the number 8 is considered very lucky in Chinese culture, a Chinese man spent the equivalent of $145,000 to secure a license plate reading ‘88888’ in the hope of increasing his luck. On his first day with the plate, he was pulled over 8 times by cops who thought the plate was a fake.
MlJB TIL that in an old study conducted in the 80s in a hospital in LA, the researchers found out that 75.5% of patients with gunshot wounds to the heart survived, and 88.5% of patients with stab wounds to the heart survived.
mxprp TIL that botox is the deadliest substance on earth, a few kilos of it enough to kill every human on the planet. In cosmetics, it is given in quantities a billionth of a gram large. It is also the most expensive substance on earth, costing £100trillion per kilo.