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TIL: Steve Jobs felt guilty about getting a liver transplant because he was rich so he helped author a law in California requiring the DMV to ask you to be a donor to increase the number of potential organ donors.

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X0OKj TIL that human infants as young as 14 hours from birth prefer to look at attractive faces rather than unattractive faces
X0Zoj TIL in 2000, Galoob Toys Inc. recalled about 8.9 million Sky Dancers flying dolls after receiving reports of injures which resulted from the doll striking adults and children, such as scratched corneas, broken teeth, a mild concussion, a broken rib, and facial lacerations that required stitches
1L54 TIL that Apollo 12 astronaut Alan L Bean accidentally destroyed the mission’s TV camera by pointing it at the sun, left several rolls of exposed film on the moon by mistake, and was hit on the head by a 16mm film camera when the crew splashed down on Earth.
gM0J9 TIL: Niels Bohr didn't actually have a beer pipeline installed in the house gifted to him by Carlsberg. The story was invented by an overly enthusiastic science professor in England with a YouTube show and then spread by journalists who didn't fact check the story for accuracy.
rlp4 TIL In 2001 a judge sentenced a 17 year old boy, arrested for paraphernalia, to listen to Afroman’s “Because I Got High” and write a three paragraph report about it.