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TIL that Shingo, a small village in Japan, claims to be the burial place of Jesus Christ and his younger brother Isukiri

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Rnwj TIL that long nails of two NICU nurses (one with natural nails, one artificial) caused 46 pseudomonas infections in infants during a 15 month period. Sixteen babies died, at least 8 as a direct result of the infections.
KOXKE TIL that Rudyard, Montana is the only town in the contiguous United States in which you could dig a hole through the center of the earth and emerge from the other side on dry land.
oBBWK TIL Someone actually made and sold a reusable condom.
Ypjwr TIL Galileo was the first to confirm the Moon's rough and uneven surface using a specially-engineered telescope and the first to find sunspots. Both findings, in addition to his observation of Jupiter's moons revolving the planet, helped disprove Aristotle's theory of a geocentric universe.
QJQaX TIL about Dr. Leonard Baily, who in 1984 transplanted a baboon heart into a dying infant known as Baby Fae. Baby Fae lived for another three weeks after the procedure.