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TIL Scientists have actually performed “succesful” head/brain transplants. “When the newly attached monkey woke up, he tried to bite off the finger of an attending doctor, and everyone cheered.”

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w74M TIL that Unpopped popcorn is considered nonperishable and will last indefinitely if stored in ideal conditions.
DQ1mY TIL that there was a Masonic-style group for Catholics to join in the 18th century called the Order of the Pug. Initiates had to wear a dog collar and kiss the rear end of a porcelain statue of a pug.
lQba TIL Baboons will kidnap feral dog puppies and raise them so that they will protect the baboon troop when they grow up.
g9ob TIL that one of the US Navy’s most advanced yet-to-be commissioned missile destroyers is commanded by Captain James Kirk.
b9NoQ TIL that a small puncture in a hydraulic line can produce a needle like stream that shoots oil into the blood if interfered, and that these cases often get misdiagnosed