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TIL that when actor Liam Neesons wife, Natasha Richardson, died in 2009 he donated her organs. Her heart, kidneys, and liver are keeping three people alive.

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a9y TIL that Henry Ford was a Nazi anti-Semitic supporter and was the first foreigner to be decorated with Nazi Germany’s Grand Cross of the German Eagle.
DAoJ TIL that all of the many self-portraits that Van Gogh is famous for were painted in a span of just 3 years.
N7MBM TIL in their 2002 World Cup qualifying match against Australia, American Samoa had 19 players out because of passport issues and the under-20 team replacements unavailable due to school exams. As a result they only fielded one regular player and lost 31-0.
x6jjw TIL that in 1860, Birkenhead (UK) had become the first town in Europe to operate a street tramway. It was started by George Francis Train, an American entrepreneur
bQkp TIL that divers in 1900 discovered an ancient Greek shipwreck with an odd-looking bronze device on board. The device was later determined to be the world’s oldest analog computer, dating back to the 1st century B.C.E., thousands of years before similar technologies would be re-discovered