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TIL: A human head transplant is planned to happen in China in the next few months. The main method is freezing the head before re-attaching it to an entirely new body.

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1aVW TIL Tom Dempsey, a man born with a club foot (no toes) and kicked for the Saints - holds the 42 year old NFL field goal record of 63 yards. (It was tied today for the 3rd time by San Fran’s David Akers).
meKM TIL in Colorado you cannot be fired for any lawful activities you conduct on your own time, outside of work hours.
R67j TIL: Hebrew became extinct as a spoken native language around 200 CE. It was revived in Paris on 13 October 1881 when a man called Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and his friends agreed to exclusively speak Hebrew in their conversations.
erag TIL that during filming of “The Hobbit” in green screen with no one else to act with, Ian McKellan burst into tears and said, “This is not why I became an actor”
4Xbew TIL if the Queen pops her handbag on the table at dinner, it reportedly means she wants dinner to end within the next five minutes. If it goes on the floor, rumour has it, she's tired of the conversation and wants to be whisked off quickly by her lady-in-waiting.