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TIL Elvis once bought a random stranger a car after he saw her admiring his custom limo while it was parked at a car dealership

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j6N4p TIL bone fragments from the Early Miocene discovered in 1978 provide evidence that fully terrestrial mammals once lived in what is now New Zealand. The animal is currently unnamed
lRLB TIL: The Battle of Khas Oruzgan in 2008 Afghanistan. Australian SF asked Dutch helicopter pilots for assistance after taking casualties , but they refused. The soldier on the ground responsible for guiding air support told the Dutch: “If you’re not going to engage then you might as well fuck off”
EkdX TIL we are just a few years away from 3D printing human organs, which could revolutionize medicine and transplants
P5Vg TIL in 1940, 2 Australian air force planes collided and locked together midair during a training exercise yet pilot L. Fuller landed the entangled planes after traveling 5 miles, after all other crews ejected. Fuller was commemorated & promoted, but died in 1944 when his bicycle collided with a bus.
lDxK TIL that only a very small percentage of people are thought to be gluten intolerant, but those and IBS symptoms might actually be related FODMAPS- a group of fermentable carbohydrates that are poorly absorbed by gut bacteria.