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TIL: scientists have invented a gel that can be directly squirted into an open wound to instantly stop bleeding. It was inspired by medpacs in videogames.

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P1QQe TIL the original theme song for Gilligan's Island wasn't a sea shanty, but a calypso theme written by John Williams.
8aP6V TIL up until 1981, a purely heterosexual form of polyamorous marriage was widely practiced among the Tibetans: each man had many wives, and each woman had many husbands. This practice is still common today in rural areas.
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
EbbX TIL shortly after Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his dorm room, he offered a friend “emails, pictures, addresses, SNS” of 4,000 Harvard users, calling them “dumb fucks” for trusting him with their data
XEXMr TIL in 2013 the Redskins cheerleaders were being exploited to please sponsors in a showing outside the country and some were made to strip in front of male guest and passports were removed.