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TIL children can regrow amputated fingertips. In 2016, when a 7-year-old girl's fingertip was torn off, surgeons stuck the tip back on to protect the wound but told the parents that it would likely die. Eight days later it had died, and in its place had grown a perfectly functional new one.

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