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TIL that a woman in Pennsylvania needed a life-saving liver transplant, but she kept testing positive for alcohol, which prevented her from getting a transplant, despite swearing that she hadn’t been drinking. The doctors were confused, and it later turned out that her body produced its own alcohol.

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KeZE TIL that penny dreadfuls, pulp novels from the 1800s, were once blamed for the criminal behavior of young men in the same way that video games are blamed today.
Dk1V TIL that NASA is creating an “interstellar internet”, called Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN). It can transmit information through solar storms, solar flares, and even past planets without losing any original data. It successfully sent images to a spacecraft located 20 million miles from earth.
e0ZjL TIL about Patsy Mink, a law school graduate who was prohibited from taking the bar exam because she was a married woman. In 1964, she became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where she authored Title IX, which prohibits gender discrimination in education.
BgNZr TIL that in 1982 all five TV Emmy award nominees for Best Actor were from one show, Hill Street Blues
kOm6E TIL that Samuel L. Jackson’s lightsaber in Revenge of the Sith had BMF etched into the switch.