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TIL that Canadian doctors invented a procedure to help a woman with bone cancer where they almost literally cut her in half and then (mostly) put her back together.

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Zp89D TIL that the United States poisoned alcoholic beverages during Prohibition, killing an estimated 10,000 people overall.
16DW8 Today I learned that humans can glow in the dark, however, they are too weak for the human eye to detect.
JYLn4 TIL the town of Scotia in California remained a company town entirely owned by the Pacific Lumber Company until the company's 2008 bankruptcy.
DGoD TIL that zoos save feathers that come off many of their birds and have them distributed to Native American tribes for their religious ceremonies.
wLb9P TIL there are no known cases of a moon orbiting another moon, although it is possible in theory. One of the proposed names for these submoons is moonmoon.