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TIL a Taiwan man, Ben Hsu, swallowed an AirPod while asleep. When Hsu awoke, he hit Apple's tracking & heard beeps from inside his body. Kaohsiung Hospital confirmed: the earbud was in his stomach, and then passed from his body naturally. After a wash/dry his AirPod worked as usual, battery at 41%.

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4Yxg TIL Bob Brenly, SF Giant catcher pressed into playing 3rd base, made four errors in 4th inning and was soundly booed by the home crowd. He then hit a HR in the 5th, a game tying single in the 7th and a walk-off HR in the 9th to earn a standing ovation
DQAxr TIL That Chiropractic was invented by a Canadian in 1895 named D.D. Palmer who believed that a doctor who died 50 years prior gave him the knowledge of this practice during a spiritualist camp.
6yJm TIL In 2005, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the application of Eminent Domain to kick homeowners off of their property so private developers could build hotels, health clubs, and condos in New London, Connecticut. Years later, the abandoned property remains an overgrown, barren field.
dDkV9 TIL in 2016 a doctor performed surgery on the wrong baby. The mother thought her newborn was going for a routine checkup, but instead found out that a frenulectomy had been performed on her healthy baby. A procedure where the flap of skin under the tongue is clipped to give it more range of motion.
1Q98 TIL nearly 70% of African American children and 60% of Hispanic children do not know how to swim. African-American children drown at a rate nearly three times higher than white children.