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TIL Karen, a 27-year-old currently living in San Diego, had a world-first open-heart surgery when she was only two years old. Karen is an orangutan.

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MAbA TIL that potatoes have a bad rap, but are actually highly beneficial to your health. They are packed with Vitamin C, Potassium, Fiber, Vitamin B6 and Kukoamines which help aid in lowering blood-pressure.
69ge8 TIL that in 2006, FBI agents attempted to arrest prison guards at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tallahassee, after having learnt the guards were trading drugs for sex with female inmates. One of the guards opened fire with a personal handgun, killing one agent and wounding another.
nW57 TIL that contrary to popular belief, Goldfish do not have three second memories. Infact, tests have shown that they have a memory greater than three months.
0w145 TIL New research published in Science Advances proposes that dinosaurs were actually warm-blooded creatures. Team of scientists from Yale Uni studied the arrangement of atoms in dinosaur eggshells to determine that the mothers who carried the eggs had warmer body temperatures than their surrounding
OGD6R TIL about Fet-Mets, the Swedish petrified miner. Found in 1719 in an underwater mine shaft, naturally mummified by Copper Sulfate. His former fiancée identified him as Fet-Mats Israelsson, who had disappeared 42 years earlier. The remains were put on display on and off again until 1930.