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TIL players of an online video game called Foldit decoded the crystal structure of an AIDS structure using the video game puzzle that had baffled scientists for over 15 years.

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yoMe TIL that the oldest Parisian café in continuous operation is “Café Procope”. It was opened in 1686
yZWM TIL, NSFW: A Playboy Centerfold was the standard test image by which graphic designers measured and compared advances in color, transitions, uniform regions, sharp edges, and electronic transmission.
ANGwB TIL kites can kill people?
1pd8 TIL because of the “Harlem Shake” hundreds of students have been disciplined, fifteen Aussie miners fired, and there is even an FAA investigation.
5pRk TIL Federico da Montefeltro, fifteenth-century duke of Urbino, after having lost one eye in a tournament had his surgeons successfully amputate the bridge of his nose to widen his field of view.