Today I Learned 🎓

TIL that a piece of a transplanted liver can grow into a full-sized, fully functional liver in the recipient in about six weeks. At the same time, the donor's liver regenerates to replace the missing section. [Source]

TIL that historically, syphilis was treated by infecting patients with malaria to induce fever. About 15% of patients died from malaria, but this was considered better than the near-certain death from syphilis. [Source]

TIL deep within the Earth lies the remains of a planet that crashed into it billions of years ago. [Source]

TIL that Children From Low-Income Households With Rich Friends Are Likely to Earn More in Adulthood [Source]

TIL Conjoined twins occur once in every 50,000 to 60,000 births and 70 percent of conjoined twins are female [Source]

TIL that Marilyn Monroe's contract required that her films be in color, but she made an exception for “Some Like It Hot” after seeing Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis’ makeup. [Source]

TIL in the Phoenix Metro area, the water utility still offers flood irrigation to homeowners. Twice per month, they will flood your entire property to 1 ft. deep for ~$0.0006/gal (homes with ~0.2 acre only pay $152.25/mo.)! [Source]

TIL 40% of HPV related cancers occur in men. [Source]

TIL we don't actually know why testicles are outside the body; theories like due to heat fail since many animals like elephants or birds have testicles inside the body AND a higher internal temperature; others like ‘galloping hypothesis’ were proposed but all theories have failed one way or another [Source]

TIL Boss Tweed was convicted in 1877 of stealing between $25 and 45 million of NYC taxpayer money through corruption, but later estimates puts that figure as high as $200 million ($5 billion in 2023) [Source]