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TIL there is a species of flying squid that is capable of "jet-propelled aerial locomotion"

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69yxX TIL Jessica Cantillan, a 17 yr old Mexican citizen received the wrong heart and lung in a transplant surgery at Duke University in 2003. The transplant surgeon (world renowned)wasn't notified untIl the end of surgery. Her body rejected the organs and despite a second surgery, she died.
16MDW TIL Heinrich Himmler's daughter, Gudrun Burwitz, never renounced Nazi ideology, spending most of her life defending her father's reputation. She died in 2018.
4XKw TIL: the Sun accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System
LkWOQ TIL that while apes can learn sign language and communicate using it, they have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking questions to humans or other apes.
4kk1b TIL that competitive pillow fighting is something that exists, and that there is an All-Japan Pillow Fighting Championship that has been occurring since 2013