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TIL: A patient who recieved a bone marrow transplant developed the same food allergy as the bone marrow donor.

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WkJXY TIL The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima named by it’s pilot Col Paul Tibbets, after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who was named after a character of the book, Enola; or, Her fatal mistake. With eerily prophetic passages including “He is the bird of ill omen.”
5YBrr TIL that in 1876, James Garfield, future 20th President of the United States, developed a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem that was published in New-England Journal of Education.
R5lJj TIL Tablecloths were designed to be used as one big, communal napkin during the Renaissance period. When they were first invented, guests were meant to wipe off their hands and faces on a tablecloth after a messy dinner party.
nWDNd TIL Vivipary, meaning "live birth" in Latin, refers to the premature germination of seeds while they are still inside or attached to the parent plant or fruit
4dJN TIL that private browsing is used for an average of 10 minutes at a time