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TIL that scientists can get four football fields’ worth of skin (for burn victims) from a single baby’s foreskin.

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yVn5p TIL of Sister Exchange, a type of marriage agreement where two sets of siblings marry each other. In order to get married, a man needs to persuade his sister to marry the bride's brother. It is practised as a primary method of organising marriages in 3% of the world's societies.
LQrv TIL: From Breaking Bad the website that Walt Jr. creates for Walter is real, with a link to donate to real Cancer Coalition.
69YEW TIL That the Olympic torch relay was invented by the Nazis as a way for Hitler to spread Nazi influence to other countries
X0oRX TIL that Mall of America and American Dream Meadowlands are owned by Canadians
r1Ee TIL that a UCSD physicist wrote a 4-page paper to argue his way out of a traffic ticket