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TIL: When someone with a bone marrow transplant takes a DNA/ethnicity test, their results typically include the results of their donor. This is called genetic chimerism.

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e04BE TIL of the song “prisencolinensinainciusol”. It topped the Italian charts in the 70s, despite the lyrics being absolute nonsensical gibberish. It was meant to illustrate what American English sounds like to non-English speakers.
5Y1LQ TIL that in 1967, the Tax Court of the United States ruled, over IRS protests, that catching a baseball one‐handed was so remarkable and valuable a technique that a player was justified in deducting as a business expense a cash payment to his father as compensation for teaching him
e07k6 TIL that many fire departments, including the San Francisco FD, still prefer wooden ladders because they are non-conductors of electricity, the best natural insulator against heat, and only burn on the outside while the centre of wood remains solid and strong.
1XW TIL A dedicated Star Wars fan Is painstakingly restoring the star wars movies Without all the special edition crap!
4g7b TIL that German chocolate cake isn’t German; it’s named after an American chocolate maker named Sam German who developed the dark chocolate originally used in the recipe.