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TIL the inventor of the heart stent approached numerous companies for funding and was rejected. It was funded by the owner of Fuddrucker’s restaurant, whom he met by chance on a golf course.

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v104R TIL that Slovenia's national anthem is called "A Toast" (Zdravljica)
rAEd TIL A Man is Selling Evidence that Nicolas Cage is a vampire for $1 million dollars.
1on8 TIL after the entire national Soviet hockey team was killed in a plane crash in 1950. Stalin’s son Vasily, who managed the team, covered up the disaster and replaced all the players to avoid his Fathers wrath. Stalin never noticed.
dDVAK TIL that human chromosomes are organized by length (chromosome 1 = biggest). After sequencing of the human genome, it was discovered that chromosome 22 was actually bigger than chromosome 21 making the organization out of order.
kEmB TIL there’s a drug called Actos, which side-effects include an increase risk of bladder cancer by 83 percent, heart failure, liver failure and bone fractures. It’s been banned in France and Germany, but still legal in the United States.