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TIL In the 1960's people used to drink Dr Pepper as a HOT drink in wintertime

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xVvMD TIL The First successful Kidney Transplant took place in 1954 when Ronald Herrick, 23, had agreed to donate one of his kidneys to his identical twin brother, Richard, who was dying of kidney failure
bAp7 TIL a Japanese trader once mistakenly issued a trade selling 610,000 shares for 1 yen. The trade should have sold 1 share for 610,000 yen.
1aQV TIL the world’s oldest functioning light bulb was built in 1900 and is still burning.
JlQ1 TIL The Plantaris is a small muscle in your calf that is believed to be used by our ancestors to grip with their feet. It is so weak that it is considered functionally obsolete and arguments have been made that humans are evolving it out. It is absent in 7-10% of the population worldwide.
rNAww TIL the brain-body mass ratio is thought to be a rough estimate of the intelligence of an animal, and that the bony-eared assfish has the smallest brain-body mass ratio of all vertebrates.