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TIL that a man lived with a penis on his arm for 6 years

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kOlZW TIL about the carnivorous spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651. It is believed that this galaxy consumed another smaller galaxy to become the large and beautiful spiral that we observe today.
84aL TIL Douglas Bader was a legless flying ace (RAF) in WW2 . His success was partly because of his having no legs; pilots pulling high “g-forces” in combat often “blacked out” as the flow of blood from the brain to other body parts, usually the legs. As he had no legs he could remain conscious longer.
ErgW TIL Margret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, said: “that abortion was the wrong way — no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way…because life had not yet begun.”
jGmN TIL that a man having a seizure on subway tracks was rescued by a stranger. The rescuer jumped down onto the man and compressed him down by laying on him as five cars passed over him.
VBJO0 TIL because of constant famines during the British Raj Indian genes got starvation adapted and resistant to insulin. As a result, today Indians are four and six times more likely to get type 2 diabetes than white people. Over 100 million people have diabetes in India.