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TIL The grandniece of China's last emperor is an artist who opened a gallery in Vancouver's Chinatown where she sells her paintings and displays works dedicated to explaining the Qing dynasty

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Oo8PY TIL that the low-hanging bar on the back of semi trailers is called a “Mansfield Bar.” It was mandated after a gruesome accident took the life of actress Jayne Mansfield.
4XdLg TIL in 1984 an 8 year old girl with sickle cell disease developed acute myeloid leukemia. To treat the cancer, the doctors gave her chemo and a stem cell transplant from her sibling. Not only did this cure her cancer, but it cured her SCD too. She remains disease free nearly three decades later.
PYVVg TIL That Organ Donation Is Complicated
EgKeP TIL about a billions of years old meteorite that held a beautiful secret.
OGEMR TIL a teenager who is blind has been able to play quarterback for a California high school football team by memorizing each play and by communications from his father on the sideline who is able to narrate the visuals to him using a walkie talkie.