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TIL the 1981 film "Roar" featured shoots with live animals that resulted in 70+ injuries including cinematographer Jan De Bont who needed 220 stitches to reattach his scalp

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JY9D8 TIL: Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine devised a system roughly analogous to a dialysis machine, called BrainEx, that restores circulation and oxygen flow to a dead brain. Using BrainEx, they restored restored cellular function in 32 pig brains that had been dead for over four hours.
QjNM TIL Also plants can be albino’s. However, plants need the chlorophyll (which makes them green) to survive, making albino plants extremely rare. Albino sequoia’s can live as “parasite trees” by tapping other trees’ roots, enabling it to survive without chlorophyll. About 230 are known to exist.
EbJo TIL that a 2011 size 0 is larger than a 1970 size 6
negpr TIL that Bismarck was shot twice as he walked in Berlin, then turned around to confront his attacker and was shot three more times. The would-be assassin was aprehended and Bismarck continued his day as if nothing had happened: three bullets had grazed him, and two had simply bounced off his ribcage
59XQ TIL that there are more blacks on welfare in the US than any other race despite being ~13% of the population.