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TIL of Ryan Arnold, a man who saved his older brother’s life by donating him two thirds of his liver. Unfortunately, he died a few days after surgery while his brother got better.

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5JjB TIL in 1989 a Michigan farmer found a camera attached to balloons in his field. It contained images of what appeared to be a mutilated corpse, sparking a yearlong FBI investigation. It turned out to be footage for Nine Inch Nails’ first music video, filmed 200 miles away.
m1XeR TIL Honey "never" spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still edible.
yQvxp TIL At 83 years old, Michael Caine changed his legal name because "An airport security guard would say, ‘Hi, Michael Caine,’ and suddenly I’d give him a passport with a different name on it. I could stand there for an hour. So I changed my name."
jNAAX TIL The FBI kept a file on Stanley Kubrick because Admiral Arleigh Burke accused Dr. Strangelove of being "detrimental to the Nation"
v1g8L TIL: Dolly Parton has a book gifting program called the Imagination Library, which gifts free books every month to children, from birth until school