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TIL The axolotl, a type of salamander native to Mexico, has an incredible ability to regenerate not just its limbs but also its heart, spine, and parts of its brain without scarring.

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yQbOw TIL 10 Downing Street in the 19th Century was guarded by two men who would sit outside the building in leather chairs, armed with a pistol. Each chair featured a drawer filled with hot coals to keep the guards warm, and a sphere-shaped hood to protect from the weather and improve acoustics.
X6YQ TIL in 2005, a man received a penis transplant for the first time in history after his own was severed in an accident. Two weeks after the procedure took place, it had to be removed “because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife”
69GYm TIL after its initial discovery and isolation in London in 1928, penicillin was first mass-produced in 1942 using mould from a cantaloupe in a market in Peoria, Illinois. Just in time to prepare for the June 1944 WWII Allied invasion at Normandy.
P1LNg TIL that people who attempted suicide are statistically likely to have chronic inflammation (a faulty immune system response where you basically get sick for no reason all the time).
Br76L TIL that in 2012, a computer error caused all the fireworks in the San Diego's Fourth of July Celebration to go off at once, instead of over 18 minutes