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TIL that Stephen Colbert's father was the Dean of the Medical School at Yale University

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0wBLN TIL of Laura Bassi, the first woman to have a doctorate in science. She was privately tutored till she was 20, when the archbishop of Bologna noticed her talent and became her patron. She earned her doctorate at 21 by defending 49 theses before professors of the University of Bologna.
W70g8 TIL While some plant based milks date back to the 13th century, oat milk was invented in the 1990s. Rickard Öste developed oat milk while studying lactose intolerance at Lund University in Sweden.
4k4Bo TIL that 47% of people in prison (USA) are dyslexic. General population estimates are around 20%. Link to PDF study
l71W1 TIL when flies land on your food, they basically spit on it — because they have to release digestive juices to liquefy it into a predigested, slurpable soup they can swallow.
B9gL TIL that Boba Fett was originally introduced not in Episode V, but in the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday TV Special.