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TIL Young children can regenerate removed fingertips

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69Q9Z TIL That Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton was on five World Series teams and was never on a winning team.
j6xVN TIL: That the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had planned to carve out an artificial harbor in Northern Alaska using buried nuclear explosions. The plan (Project Chariot) had a lot of public support and would have been carried out if the Inupiat village of Point Hope hadn't strongly opposed it.
9YKJQ TIL that "A Fistful of Dollars", the first of the Man with no Name trilogy, was an unlicensed remake of Akira Kurasawa's film "Yojimbo". Kurasawa filed a lawsuit, then settled with Sergio Leone out of court with 15% of international receipts and over $100,000.
9e1r TIL: US energy subsidies for the fossil fuel companies cost the US taxpayers 5.3 Trillion dollars, or 6.5% of total Global GDP.
7PyP TIL the world population is predicted to peak at 9 billion in 2050, then start to decrease dramatically.