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TIL that plastic surgeons use decapitated cadaver heads to learn and refresh their surgical skills

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neDKo TIL that the inventor of the frisbee, Ed Hendrick, was cremated and had his ashes turned into frisbees.
Pl1E TIL Saturn’s moon Enceladus has gysers that shoot large jets of water vapor into space and according to NASA “is emerging as the most habitable spot beyond Earth in the Solar System for life as we know it.”
npX9 TIL that during the first few minutes of The Hunt for Red October the film switches from Russian to English. The switch occurs on the word “Armageddon”, which is the same in both languages.
4Xgmg TIL that at any given time in Kentucky, there are more barrels of bourbon aging (~5.3 million) than there are people (~4.5 million).
8aExL TIL: A study found that Charlie Sheen’s HIV-positive disclosure in 2014 led to 8225 more sales than expected of in-home HIV tests, surpassing World AIDS Day by a factor of about 7, concluding that a “Charlie Sheen effect” represents an important opportunity for a public health response.