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TIL When a person receives a kidney transplant they don’t take out the old kidneys, they just shove em to the side and leave em in there.

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wQNW TIL that American volunteers fighting in other nations armed forces in WW2 lost their citizenship and changed their nationality to Canadian. Congress eventually passed a blanked pardon in 1944.
4ZEg TIL At 78, Dick Dale suffers from renal failure, diabetes, damaged vertebrae, rectal cancer, but keeps touring to afford medical treatment
VXkG TIL Clint Eastwood was offered the role as James Bond, but although flattered he turned down the offer, stating that 007 should be played by an Englishman.
5VmKk Today I learned Congressmen and their families are allowed to trade stocks with almost no limitations
6EmJw TIL Physics Laureate Gerard Muorou (2018, Short Pulse Lasers) accidentally revolutionized Ophthalmology when in 1993 a student, struck by the laser, miraculously suffered no damage as the pulse was amazingly short, lasting a femtosecond long. The laser than became the Standard-Bearer in Eye Surgery.