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TIL That scientists at Harvard have not only slowed down aging in mice before, but have been able to completely reverse it.

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rNYJx TIL that in times with a greater proportion of single men competing for fewer women, beards and mustaches became more fashionable
Wr8N TIL a year before “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch killed 4 people while driving drunk, he was caught with alcohol and a naked, passed-out 14-yr-old in his truck. Since then, his mother was convicted of forcing another vehicle off the road and his father was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
bGYp TIL: Kim Jong Un is a huge Pokemon fan, even allegedly lifting the ban on the franchise in North Korea
QJKx9 TIL That beer was considered a soft drink in Russia until 2011
JYJBQ TIL about enclaves and other geographic anomalies: Dahala Khagrabari, a piece of India within a piece of Bangladesh within a piece of India within Bangladesh; and Vulcan Point, the world’s largest island within a lake that is situated on an island located in a lake