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TIL Kidney failure means the kidney is unable to filter out waste normally and does not mean the kidney starts becoming necrotic.

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78EX TIL Ghengis Khan and his armies killed 9-11% of the entire world’s population
m1pVx TIL that before the California Gold Rush, there was one in North Carolina in 1799! A 12-year-old named Conrad Reed found a 17-pound gold nugget while playing in a creek and used it as a doorstop for three years. When his family realized its value, they started the first gold rush in America!
4Xgp5 Over 50 spacecraft (19 landers and 6 rovers have visited the lunar surface) have successfully launched from Earth to fly past, orbit, impact and land on the Moon.
NG1J TIL Clark Gable threatened to walk off the set of Gone With The Wind if bathrooms weren’t integrated.
n1dY TIL Eleanor Roosevelt regularly refused Secret Service protection, and instead traveled with a .22 Smith and Wesson on her person.