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TIL that anyone residing in Portugal is presumed a consenting organ donor unless the contrary is manifested by obtaining a legal document that states the person does not want to be considered for donation upon their death.

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4X9Xa TIL US Marine Reservist Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid served in Operation Restore Hope (the setting of Black Hawk Down). His father, Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, was the opposition leader. One weekend in 1995 he didn’t show up to drill because he was busy taking over as warlord.
GAl6Q TIL that it's called "splooting", when squirrels and other animals lay flat to cool themselves down.
4pWR TIL: As to not betray the Hippocratic oath, doctors (also nurses, etc.) are prohibited from administering lethal injections used for capital punishment. The task is left to under trained and unqualified orderlies and technicians, resulting in slip-ups which may lead to extreme pain to the inmate.
4Xavg TIL In 1977, Bill Murray was struggling to make it on Saturday Night Live so much that he delivered an on-air plea for the audience to laugh whenever he said something. In the early going on SNL, Murray, then in his mid-20s, was generally deemed a failure
WkavN TIL that ‘prosthetics’ refers to the science of creating artificial body parts, while the artificial parts themselves are called ‘prostheses’.