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TIL that the son of Alexander Hamilton successfully represented Aaron Burr’s wife in her divorce case against him

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E1OAW TIL about Kintsukuroi which is the practice of seeing beauty in the flawed or imperfect. Instead of throwing out the damaged pottery, the Japanese would repair it with gold and create art from the broken.
JYoDl TIL In Ghana, imported second-hand clothing is known as 'obroni wawo', or 'dead white man's clothes.'
m1ZPp TIL Rob Walton (son of Walmart founder Sam Walton) crashed a 1 of 6 Shelby Daytona Coupe worth more than $14 million.
nedpG TIL there are no documented cases of wild orca whales attacking humans...and that orcas are...dolphins?!
neAvP TIL that during kidney transplant surgery, the existing kidneys generally aren’t taken out unless there is a medical reason to remove them. The donated kidney is placed into the lower abdomen, where it’s easiest to connect it to the important blood vessels and bladder.