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TIL that even if you get the call “we have a kidney”, positive cross match nixes it

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RXG8 TIL in a 1955 interview, James Dean talked about safe driving and his last line was ‘Take it easy, the life you might save might be mine’
QLL9 TIL that during one of his innumerable Presidential affairs, John F. Kennedy tore a groin muscle and had to wear a stiff shoulder-to-groin brace that prevented the reflexive ducking which might have saved him from the second, fatal, assassin’s bullet. (PDF: par 3 pg 5)
wLd1P TIL the phrase being on "cloud nine" actually comes from a cloud atlas published in 1896 that divides clouds into 10 basic types, the ninth type being cumulonimbus clouds, the most puffy-looking ones. See A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, Part V Chapter 17 Into the Troposphere.
8e9KX TIL By the end of the 19th century, nearly 40% of American cars were electric.
woXmJ TIL that the very original screening of Lion King 1994 had two baby cubs at the end rather than one. This was later changed to one on later screenings.