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TIL China is harvesting organs from live "prisoners of conscience", performing more than 4,000 organ transplants per day. The EU parliament has passed resolutions against it but they've gone basically unnoticed

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Je8j TIL that receptive agnosia is an inability to understand music. Sufferers regard music as simply “noise”, often compared to drainpipes or drills, or other invasive forms of background noise.
QNd1e TIL that Cora Agnes Benneson, one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women".
dmG8 TIL that in response to her husband’s infidelity, a woman from Prague decided to commit suicide by jumping from her third-story balcony. By chance she happened to land on her spouse below, cushioning her fall. She survived, but he died.
d4Kd TIL that the plane Lyrnyd Skynyrd went down in was earlier rejected by Aerosmiths flight crew because they felt neither the plane nor the crew were up to standards.
yVXM8 TIL that europeans invented racism