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TIL less than 20% of Japanese people have passports

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9wRe6 TIL that Hannah Clark, a teen from England, lived with two hearts for 11 years after a piggyback transplant. Doctors later removed the donor heart when her original heart miraculously recovered and started working on its own again.
VRDG TIL a study where stradivaris and new violins were blind-tested has shown that most people prefer the sound of the newer instruments
DOvP TIL Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier.
KOmoJ TIL That Mariska Hargitay's (who plays Olivia Benson L&O: SVU) mother was Jayne Mansfield, one of the most famous sex symbols in America.
DJMe TIL George Washington said he’d never set foot in London again, so when Virginia gifted a statue of the president to Great Britain they also sent dirt from Virginia to put under the statue.