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TIL In 1997 Brittish scientist wanted to create headless humans for organ transplants

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Z8dNa TIL that "Dak Runners" of old Bengal used to carry mails running at intervals of eight miles. They had to face all sorts of risks, hazards and hardships in carrying mails through jungles, hills and deserts
LQkd9 TIL that "Urban Macrocephaly" is the phenomenon of excessive concentration of population and development of the main city of a country and it subjects the country to fragility to insurrections.
Nj1E TIL that, thanks to a communication failure, a lot more US soldiers died during the preparation excersize for the “Utah Beach” Normandy invasion than the actual invasion itself.
Q9b6 TIL the margin of error in the Indian population census is twice the global Jewish population
Ld8d TIL In 1997 Charles Barkley was in court because he threw a man out of a first floor window during a bar fight. When asked by a judge if he regretted anything he replied, “yeah, I regret we weren’t on a higher floor.”