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N7wkE TIL during surgery on a 60-year-old woman, Italian doctors discovered one of the first heart prostheses - an artificial mitral valve - which was implanted almost 50 years ago when the patient was 10, by Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant
A14B TIL In the event of a quarantine situation in New York City, The U.S. Government has a contingency plan of placing snipers in strategic locations to prevent people from escaping the Island of Manhatten on inflatable mattresses.
6OJX TIL that radioactive wild boars are wreaking havoc in towns nearby the Fukushima nuclear power plant, causing an estimated $15million in damage.
XgOX TIL ‘old person smell’ is actually caused by the chemical 2-nonenal. Older people secrete this chemical through their skin at a much higher rate than younger people.
M7Ol7 TIL about Pope Joan, a woman who became pope during the Middle ages by disguising herself as a man. The legend was believed to be true until 17th century.