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TIL: There is now "liver dialysis" treatment that's a little bit like dialysis for kidney failure, but for liver failure instead.

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KOnOB TIL that comedian Pete Davidson’s father, Scott Davidson, was a New York firefighter who died on September 11th, 2001 when entering the World Trade Center towers. He was last seen entering the ground floor of the WTC Marriott to help victims who had been trapped by the first crash.
6E6xJ TIL that a plane like a Boeing 747 uses approximately 1 gallon of fuel (about 4 liters) every second.
lokPG TIL in 2007, a guitar intended for charity and signed by Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Mark Knopfler, Bill Wyman, Gary Moore, Pete Townsend & Brian May, was 'lost' when it was given to a parcel company. The guitar appeared 10 years later in an on-line auction and was recovered by the police
e0ZE4 TIL Pluto has five known moons. It is considered by many scientists to be a double planet system, because the largest moon, Charon, is so big (half the size of Pluto itself) that the two orbit a spot in between each other instead of Charon just orbiting Pluto like a smaller moon would.
N7LR8 TIL that pirates wore eye patches to help overcome night vision, and not from combat.