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TIL in 2019 a South African doctor performed the world's first successful middle ear transplant, curing the patient's deafness

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D1Mpv TIL: Computer programmer hired woman to slap him in the face every time he used Facebook, resulting in massive productivity increase.
EgZDP TIL San Francisco allows people to park in the middle of the road ("the median") on Sundays on certain streets. For many years, law enforcement gave the blind eye to the practice in the name of ‘parking for God’ so people can go to church, it became permissible by law officially in 2018.
gMmJD TIL the Monkees named their movie Head, so that if they ever released a second film they could use the tag line “from the people who gave you Head”
4XnG6 TIL that words that change meaning and sometimes pronunciation based on the capitalization of the first letter, like "Polish" vs. "polish" are called Capitonyms.
neLY9 TIL Victorian upper class society ate ice cream and ices with a specialized fork (that was definitely a spork)