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TIL of Norman Borlaug, a scientist who developed and promoted higher-yield wheat, started the Green Revolution, and may have saved over a billion lives through better agriculture.

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jNMdE TIL of Albert Stevens, a house painter that was unwittingly injected with plutonium and survived the highest known dose of radiation in any human
loB8G TIL that blood passes through the kidneys at a rate of 1.1 Liters per minute. The human body has about 5 Liters of blood. This means your entire blood gets filtered by your kidneys every 5 minutes.
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b6k0N TIL, the island state of Tasmania, shares a 85m long land boarder with the state of Victoria (part of the Australian mainland) due to a surveying error
R5KA9 TIL St. Valentine is a patron saint of epilepsy. As one who suffers from this, I can also celebrate the love I have who has seen me through all of this.