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TIL that while Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse any blood products/transfusions, they accept solid organ transplants, like kidneys, pancreas, etc.

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yVKEv TIL: The common birds around your yard often sleep nearby in flocks in trees, but not in nests--they abandon those soon after their eggs hatch. Birds on the edges of flocks often sleep with one eye open, including ducks that roost in water. Birds in the center sleep with both eyes shut.
94W7 TIL in 1996 a plane carrying 163 passengers was hijacked, the pilot, Leul Abate, who had been in two previous hijackings, made the only true water landing of a widebody airliner with survivors, whilst the first officer, Yonas Mekuria, was fighting with the hijackers. Also, the landing is on tape.
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