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TIL teeth are not bones but are evolved fish scales

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rEDx TIL that in 1946, a four year old Australian boy was flown to San Francisco to receive cancer treatment. Instead, he got caught in a Manhattan Project experiment and was injected with plutonium. He died one year later.
jbBQ TIL: In 1959, a rhinoceros named Cacareco was elected to city council in Sao Paolo. Not only did she win, but she did so by a landslide
jNYMv TIL: During an average lifetime of driving, we face about a one-in-three chance of being seriously injured or killed in a motor vehicle crash.
lob7G TIL: Despite being one of the most advanced and largest cities in the region, only 15% of the population of Dubai are actually natives, called Emiratis.
e6Zn TIL that there is a small district of Vilnius, Lithuania that has declared itself an independent republic. It has its own flag, currency, president, cabinet, and an army of 11 men.