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TIL that scientists actually REVERSED ageing in mice

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pYORA TIL about a jigsaw puzzle with a $2 million prize that has remained unsolved for 17 years—even AI struggles with it.
16JlX TIL after the American Revolution the -ville suffix became popular in the names of new US settlements due to an increase of pro-French sentiments.
LQWE0 TIL Mama Cass and Keith Moon died in the same bedroom at the same age.
pYYaG TIL a new program has started using UAV’s to combat elephant and rhino poaching in Africa. Small, battery-powered UAV’s are much more mobile than park rangers, and virtually silent, making them ideal for spotting poachers who think they’re alone in the bush.
R4N8 TIL that in February 1991, 28 American soldiers died when a Patriot missile didn’t compute two floating point numbers correctly making it miss its intended target (a Scud missile) by 600 meters or 0.372822 miles