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TIL Hamsters’ livers are shockingly efficient at dealing with alcohol, cannot from an alcohol overdose. Their livers break it down so quickly that their blood never gets enough alcohol in it to become fatal.

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4k0ja TIL- Famous writer Larry Niven advised homeland security to spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants.
a0g9 TIL that Richard Nixon was gifted two Giant Pandas (Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing) after his historic visit to China in 1972. They were given to the US as a token of friendship between the two countries.
4Xyng TIL About Ulrich Horstmann a scholar who Argued humanity should use nuclear weapons in order to bring forth the extinction of the human race.
WnXX TIL of familiar strangers, the background characters that a person usually sees at their workplace or school, but don’t talk with. However, if both were to discover each other in an unfamiliar setting, like a restaurant, they’d finally interact for the first time.
4Npg TIL that in 1952 Albert Einstein was offered the Presidency of the State of Israel. He declined, saying that as a scientist trained to deal with objective facts, he lacked the aptitude and experience to deal with people.