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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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m1aEv TIL frogs can see individual photons, the smallest possible particles of light. Even the faintest sources like distant stars appear as individual points of light not as a continuous stream but as separate flashes. To test it single photons were fired at photoreceptor cells triggering a nerve impulse
nWJv7 TIL a New York Jets fan was once killed by a drone shaped like a lawnmower
QNxla TIL of the water fluoridation controversy. During the 1950s and 1960s, conspiracy theorists claimed that adding fluoride to water was a communist plot to undermine American public health.
QNyLe TIL the movie Sahara (2005) was plagued with production problems which doubled its budget from $80M to $160M, lawsuits among the crew and being accused of violations of international law. It made $119M but failed to recoup its costs and is listed among the biggest box office failures of all time
mA9x TIL five teens who defaced a historic black schoolhouse in Virginia with racist graffiti were sentenced by a judge to read and write reports on 35 books by authors such as Elie Wiesel, Khaled Hosseini, and Maya Angelou. They were also ordered to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.