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TIL an Islandic company named Kerecis makes skin grafts from fish skins (of North Atlantic cod caught in Icelandic waters). The fish-skin graft is approved by the FDA as well as European regulatory authorities

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8aQkP TIL an Egg Cream is a beverage consisting of milk, carbonated water, and flavored syrup. The drink contains neither eggs nor cream.
vPNjB TIL the 2010 Flash Crash, during which the US stock market temporarily lost $1 trillion in value, was partly caused by Navinder Sarao, an autistic man living in his parents' London home. In a span of 5 years, Sarao made a profit of $40 million by tricking high frequency traders with custom software.
ZpV8R TIL that in 2017 the fastest growing cosmetic procedure in the world, was labiaplasty
j6wmn TIL that Neil Harbisson — an artist born with complete color-blindness — became the world's first "cyborg" after he got an antenna implanted in his head that translates different wavelengths of light into vibrations on his skull, which he then perceives as sound.
PKpg TIL the US was one vote away from introducing hippos in its swamps