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TIL it’s possible to replace a lost thumb with a toe, and that the first successful toe-to-thumb transplant was performed in 1964, on a rhesus monkey (first human was 1972)

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7rBwO TIL that Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, disappeared mysteriously at sea in 1812. At age 29 she sailed from Georgetown, South Carolina, aboard the Patriot. The ship and everyone on board was never seen again.
RNKw TIL the Swiss Guard, known now as the guys in the silly costumes that stand around the Vatican holding halberds, once stood against an army as it sacked Rome. 189 Guard stood against 20,000 invaders at the Vatican long enough for Pope Clement VII to escape the city.
4ke1b TIL The U.S. Navy's SEAL Team Six was not the sixth SEAL team. At the time there were only two. The name was chosen to confuse the Soviets.
d8aNE TIL Armie Hammer's great-grandfather, Armand Hammer, did not found Arm & Hammer baking soda but he bought it because it was already his own name
e04VE TIL about grain entrapment where farmers get engulfed in grain in silos and quite often die.