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TIL that one of the oldest recorded desserts in history is fruitcake, which dates back to ancient Egypt around 3000 BC.

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b6X00 TIL that the scientific name (Genus and species) for the Boa Constrictor is Boa constrictor.
WZ9L TIL Rob McElhenney who plays the homophobic character Mac on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia was raised by a lesbian couple
Y7jVB TIL in 2023 an amateur blogger biologist spotted several inconsistencies in the data published by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's scientists in their research papers, which led to a massive retraction campaign by the institute
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gr1QW TIL The maximum magnification of high-performance compound light microscope is 1000x but 2000x is the high end of the performance spectrum