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TIL There is a man still living with no heart. Fully conscious, speaking, and feeling yet he just doesnt have a pulse.

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V6PD TIL Vancouver researchers have created an enzyme that changes donated blood into universal type
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W9wd TIL that people steal garden gnomes, take them traveling, and then return the gnome, with photos, back to the owner.
D6Nr TIL that a “knight in shining armor” could be used as a slight since if the amor was shining he was not tested in combat.
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