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TIL that scientists actually REVERSED ageing in mice

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oBN9K TIL when Hiroshima was bombed, Tokyo's first indication that Hiroshima was destroyed by a new kind of bomb came 16 hours after the strike and originally thought reports of an explosion was just a rumour.
wLQw7 TIL on November 22, 1963, an unidentified woman placed a phone call to a news station, telling them John F Kennedy was about to be killed. The call was placed about 20 minutes before his assassination, from the vicinity of Oxnard, California, about fifty miles northwest of Los Angeles.
GYnLE TIL that a wellness blogger who faked brain cancer was fined $410,000 for a scam involving her claims that her cancer was cured through nutrition and alternative therapies.
PYQxO TIL rhino horns are actually made up of hair grown tightly packed on their nose and joined together by a glue like secretion
A4lg TIL that more than 90% of Greenland sharks are blind, due to a parasite called ‘Ommatokoita elongatathat’ that lives exclusively in the eyes of the sharks, damaging their corneas.