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TIL Penn Jillette had skin growing inside his skull. He and Teller decide to shoot a magic trick during the surgery. Since Penn’s a teetotaler, he couldn’t get the full anesthetic and remain conscious for the trick. As a result his pain made the footage so disturbing it was unusable.

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GYN7N TIL 70 percent of the world’s Macadamia Nuts came from one tree in Australia. All of Hawaii’s macadamias share distinctive markers with a tiny wild grouping of trees in Gympie, suggesting that all of the state’s modern crops were likely cloned out of a single Australian tree.
woXr6 TIL every country has quick dial, easy to remember emergency number EXCEPT North Korea.
yjQp TIL that in 1963, Australian authorities were alerted to an infestation of Marijuana plants growing in the Hunter Valley region. At its peak it spanned 30 square kilometers. It took 9 years to eradicate. People would walk in and out of the infestation, take weed and leave.
VMEWp TIL Car dealerships are always next to each other because, even though it increases competition, it creates a "destination" for car buyers, increasing traffic for all of them. It's called an "Auto Row."
Wkpnd TIL that Texas still has a mutual combat law. This means that duelling is still legal according the Texas penal code. The law states that any two individuals who feel the need to fight can agree to mutual combat through a signed, verbal or implied communication and have at it (fists only, however).