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TIL that certain medals at the 2014 winter Olympics will contain fragments of the meteorite which hit Russia.

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rNKvd TIL you can get appendix stones, calcified deposits similar to bladder or kidney stones. They’re called appendicoliths.
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kOVEm TIL bout Martin Hellinger. A German Nazi dentist who in 1943 was assigned to work at the concentration camp for women at Ravensbrück, with the duty of removing dental gold from those killed at the camp.
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