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TIL that in2017 Tina Turner received a kidney donated by her husband.

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p8BMO TIL in the middle ages priests treated rabies by sticking religious ornaments, heated until red-hot, onto bite wounds. This actually worked because they were unknowingly cauterising and sterilising the wound.
8L5X TIL ‘Blue Balls’ are not simply an imagined pressure, but are in fact a physical build up of fluid resulting from unsatisfied sexual arousal.
MyRB TIL in the 80s, the first trawling fishermen caught orange roughy fish - the subsequent boom without restrictions has pushed them to the brink of extinction because we didn’t realise they’re each hundred years old
aBEM TIL you can order a custom tailored North Korean suit in the hotels in Pyongyang for about $90 USD and look just as sharp as Kim Jong Il
XEbDQ TIL a prominent Russian editor panned one of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s early novellas saying “Dostoevsky is finished. He will no longer write anything important.” His next major work would be Crime and Punishment.