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TIL in 2006, William Shatner sold a kidney stone for $25,000 to an online casino. Shatner then donated all the proceeds to charity.

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Rnn1 TIL Russia has a Tomb of the Unknown Dog as a memorial for canine research subjects.
nW4dW TIL about the nasal cycle - many people mostly breathe (75%) through one nostril at a time and the dominant nostril alternates throughout the day. You can actually feel which one is dominanting now if you focus.
WkG89 TIL a 1485 poem describes the knight who killed Richard III as having 'shaved the boar's head.' This was thought to be a metaphor for beheading until his bones were discovered. The back of Richard III's skull had been sliced off. According to a French chronicler, it had been done with a halberd.
grALy TIL about Ashrita Furman, who has set more than 600 official Guinness Records and currently holds over 200 records, thus holding the "Guinness world record for the most Guinness world records". He has been breaking records since 1979.
KOKv9 TIL about a student nurse called Lupe Hernandez who, in 1966, invented hand sanitizer (alcohol gel). She realised that if alcohol was in gel form, it could clean hands when people had no access to soap and water.