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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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OoN94 TIL The chief of security of the company hired to organize and promote McDonald's giveaways, stole almost all of the top prizes between 1995 and 2000. The scam netted over $24 million. The trial began on September 10, 2001, but was overshadowed in the media by the September 11 attacks.
OG6gL TIL that slot machines run by the U.S. military earn $100 million a year from service members overseas
p85m4 TIL About Lt. General Charles "Chuck" Pitman who in 1973 personally commandeered a Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight to stop a mass shooter who was perched on the top of a hotel and had killed several civilians and officers after seeing it on the news
xdED TIL that there used to be a system of mountain beacons, much like in LOTR, where a message could be sent hundreds of miles in less than an hour.
aj5M TIL The Canadian $1,000 bill was retired on May 12, 2000, for being mostly used in criminal transactions, any $1,000 note deposited at a bank is destroyed, although the bills — nicknamed “pinkies” by gangsters because of the pinkish-purple ink — remain legal tender.