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TIL: Scientists Have Discovered Sharks That Live in a Volcano

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rwVW TIL that two surgeons used a coat hanger, brandy, and a tube to operate on a collapsed lung during an airplane flight - and succeeded
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Z8KGD TIL that Bill Gates released a swarm of (not infectious) mosquitoes at a TED Talk to demonstrate that even if malaria doesn’t infect people directly, they should still care
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