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TIL that Louis XVI wasn’t executed days after the Bastille storming but four years after.

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neJJY TIL Iceland has a Horse Naming Commission that oversees horse names across the country to ensure that no horse gets a foreign, vulgar, or inappropriate name.
awWAy TIL Canadian researchers developed an implant which restores the movement of patients with advanced Parkinson's disease who have trouble walking, freezing on the spot and falling. By electrical stimulation to the spine via the implant, the signal reawakens the feedback from legs to brain.
b4gj TIL: Sesame Street reviewed exactly 45 years ago today quoted a professor saying it could flop because it wasn’t “structured” teaching. (PDF)
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ngmd TIL in 2012, a man sacrificed his kidney in order to save his younger sister but his efforts ended in vain when a nurse mistakenly disposed the donated organ. Despite the success of the kidney transplant 3 months later, the family sued the hospital for their negligence.