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TIL: Scientists have discovered how to change human leukemia cells into harmless immune cells

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x6V6k TIL Silverfish can survive without food for over 300 days if water is available.
gMw1W TIL a bear in a state park got into campers’ coolers and used claws & teeth to puncture beer cans; Fish & Wildlife Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear tried a can of Busch, ignored the rest, then drank about 36 Rainier beers. They caught it a live trap baited with donuts, honey, open cans of Rainier.
gVQ4 TIL that in 2013, a 15 year old Alabama boy committed suicide after learning he might be placed on the sex offender registry after “streaking” at a high school football game.
GAWvQ TIL that "thylacoleo carnifex", known as "marsupial lion", was an Australian apex predator that weighed up to 130 kg. Thylacoleo went extinct as recently as 46 thousand years ago
yV8MM TIL about Blue Peacock, a nuclear land mine with a proposed heating system to prevent malfunctions during cold snaps in winter involving body heat from live chickens and enough supplies for them to stay alive for a week.