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TIL That in the US, if your dog or cat needs a kidney transplant, you can use a shelter animal as a donor. The only stipulation being that you are now responsible for the donor animal and are required to adopt them as well.

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OoBKa TIL that the University of Oregon (duck mascot) and Oregon State University (beaver mascot) play annually for the Platypus Trophy.
X015r TIL of a plane who made a forced landing on a Greenland ice cap in Nov. 1942. In attempting their rescue, 6 more planes either also stranded or crashed and it would take the survivors 5 and a half months of sheltering on the glacier until they were all rescued.
gpnL TIL That Wild Bill Hickok once escaped being shot by waving his hand at onlookers behind a mounted gunman and yelling, “Don’t shoot him in the back; he is drunk.” The gunman wheeled his horse around, and before he realized he had been fooled, Hickok shot him through the temple.
6EMA8 TIL sea otters have the densest fur in the world, with around 140,000 hairs per sq cm
69NJl TIL: Nebraska Senator Ernest Chambers filed a lawsuit against God in 2007, charging the almighty with “widespread death, destruction, and terrorization.” The case was dismissed with prejudice as God, lacking a fixed address, could not be properly notified of the lawsuit