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8oPG TIL that before the heart/lung machine was invented, a doctor oxygenated his patient’s blood by routing it through another person. Parents often served this purpose while their children had heart surgery.
DQoRY TIL The Wildlife Conservation Society of New York City owns three of the Jason Isles. This small island chain is roughly 6,000 miles away from New York City.
nW5RW TIL that that a religion called "the Coconut Religion" was founded in 1963 in Vietnam that advocated subsisting solely off of coconuts and coconut milk, with a "Coconut Kingdom" on an islet of the Mekong River, and referred to its leader and founder as "His Coconutship".