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TIL In 2001, the DEA attempted to ban glowsticks from parties by labelling them as “drug paraphernalia”

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N7wkE TIL during surgery on a 60-year-old woman, Italian doctors discovered one of the first heart prostheses - an artificial mitral valve - which was implanted almost 50 years ago when the patient was 10, by Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant
MmQm TIL in 2004 a Texas man was put to death for killing his family in an arson attack. The jailhouse snitch admitted he lied, and top scientists/investigators have not been able to find any reason to think the house fire was anything other than a freak accident.
1M7X TIL During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, four NOPD officers shot a man named Henry Glover, attacked civillians that came to his aid, and then set fire to his corpse. They are facing sentences of 25+ years each.
d8Za8 TIL tug-of-war used to be an Olympic sport. In the 1912 Olympics in Sweden, the host nation took gold, Great Britain took silver, and no one won bronze because only two teams showed up.
Oo1PX TIL: Researchers report that they used newly discovered gut bacteria enzymes to convert type A blood to type O at a rate faster than ever before.