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TIL that if you have excess skin after dramatic weight loss, you can actually donate the skin, which is removed via surgery, to burn victims

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mX0v TIL Al Gore won the Noble Prize over a woman who saved 2,500 children during the Holocaust
ADMWw TIL that the Vatican has a single pharmacy. The Vatican claims it is the busiest pharmacy in the world with 2,000 daily visitors. Due to complicated Italian laws, the pharmacy has medicines available years before Italian pharmacies. People often visit to buy them.
oB4D8 TIL there is a road in France that can only be used twice a day, for a few hours. Then It Disappears Under 13 Feet of Water
gMaW7 TIL Since the death of Confucius in 479 BC, all his descendants have been registered. With over 2 million registered descendants alive today. Making it the largest family tree in the world.
nmd9 TIL The ceremony of the keys at the Tower of London has gone on almost uninterrupted for 700 years. It was late once during WWII due to a number of bombs hitting the guard room, knocking the guards and Yeoman warder over. The officer in charge personally wrote a letter to the king to apologise.