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TIL that Scrubs episode where Dr. Cox lost all his transplant patients to rabies was based on a real event. [pdf]

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KY9a4 TIL: Once upon a time, Japan had sewing machines you controlled with a Nintendo Game Boy
gMyaD TIL about Arlington House, which was owned by Robert E. Lee and Mary Custis Lee, the step-great-granddaughter of George Washington. It was seized and later returned by the government. Lee’s son then sold it to the government. Its grounds are now the site of Arlington National Cemetery.
AaDn TIL North Korea is the only nation to currently have a US Navy ship captured.
Ypdg7 TIL Jim Varney studied Shakespeare professionally at the Barter Theater in Virginia before winning a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series for his role as Ernest P. Worrell in Hey Vern, It's Ernest!.
wNe7 TIL a hacker was able to recreate the fingerprint of the German Defense Minister from a photograph. This is the same hacker who defeated Apple’s thumbprint verification within 24 hours of the release of the iPhone 5S.