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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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wo8gE TIL Between 2011 and 2020 the second most common cause of death in aviation crashes was suicide by pilot. A majority of these cases were small planes only occupied by the pilot.
6EXn8 TIL there is a group working on creating glow in the dark trees. They are working on splicing bioluminescent genes from Jellyfish/Mushrooms/etc. into trees which they could then breed for greater and greater brightness. The goal would be trees that could one day replace streetlights.
v1E9r TIL That Eric Church was fired from being Rascal Flatts opening act for playing too long, and was replaced by Taylor Swift, which started her career. She gave Church her first gold record as a thanks for getting fired.
DyOp TIL there’s a video game where the main character is blind, so you play the whole thing with a black screen, having to carefully listen to the sounds to navigate the story.
r9N1 TIL: first case of child abuse was brought to New York court system, by among others, Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. There were no laws against abuse of children. so one of the arguments was that a child is technically an animal