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TIL if you lose a body part, doctors can tuck it under the skin so it can create tissue and maintain a blood supply

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EAmV TIL of the 1833 Leonids meteor shower, the largest one ever recorded estimated at 240 000 “shooting stars” per hour (~67 every second) radiating from Leo constellation over a 9 hour period. The event had such an impact on society that it was used to date people with no birth certificate.
raLM TIL: in 1954, a man committed suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, his suicide note simply read “Absolutely no reason except I have a toothache.”
OGeX4 TIL that every time you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are that the exact order of those cards has never existed before.
X0OY6 Today I learned Marine invertebrates that occur at the poles in really cold water tend to have much larger body sizes than their relatives that live elsewhere
yVGEX TIL Stephen Hawking's wife Jane offered free room-and-board at their home to students who would help care for her husband. Stephen needed fulltime help with dressing, bathing, and did not want help from anyone other than Jane