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TIL scientists created a sort of telepathy using computers

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Eg1OX TIL After Chas Newby had played 4 gigs with The Beatles in 1960, John Lennon asked him to join full-time, but Newby declined, and instead ended up teaching maths in Droitwich
vQb4 TIL a San Francisco biotech startup has managed to 3D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual horn. The company will sell rhino horns at one-eighth of the price of the original, undercutting the price poachers can get and forcing them out
j6rRv TIL that despite their presence in pop culture, the Nine Realms of Norse cosmology are never clearly defined or listed in any of the sources of old Norse folklore that survived to the modern day
xV5L5 TIL that lung cancer risk after quitting smoking remains elevated for decades and stays more than threefold higher than never smokers after 25 years of quitting smoking.
ydeM TIL In 2003, Pres. Bush started PEPFAR, providing antiretroviral drugs to African nations, lowering the AIDS rate by 10% and saving 1.1 million lives