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TIL scientists were "blown away" when they found a 1,700-year-old chicken egg in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire with the yolk and egg white still inside. It's thought to be the only one of its kind.

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QJx9M TIL that doctors in the United States are no longer required to take the Hippocratic oath and many instead take an alternative oath called the "Lasagna Oath" which emphasises a holistic and compassionate approach to medicine.
wLVOP TIL scientists have begun using the soot on feathers of birds in museum collections to track changes in air pollution over the last century. The specimens yield very precise data on black carbon levels.
lo88V TIL Nina Simone, born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, had to change her name to disguise herself from family members, for having chosen to play "the devil's music"
nWrrP TIL about su filindeu, the worlds rarest pasta. Only 3 people in the world know how to make it.
e0oRE TIL it's impossible to see your own eyes moving in a mirror due to a phenomenon called saccadic masking where the brain selectively blocks visual processing during rapid eye movements