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TIL Saudi Arabia beheads nearly two people per week

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4W6 TIL That scientists at Harvard have not only slowed down aging in mice before, but have been able to completely reverse it.
Lyp0 TIL in 1999, a man broke into George Harrison’s home, nearly killing George by stabbing him over 40 times. His reasoning was that he had been sent on a mission by God to kill George because he was as a sorcerer and a devil.
8apZV TIL flow is the mental state in which a person is completely absorbed in an activity, resulting in a loss of their sense of space and time.
a1g9 TIL the true purpose of Microsoft Solitaire and Minesweeper was to teach mouse-fluency by stealth
ANMKd TIL that it cost NASA more than $50 million to fix a 2-micron deviation in the Hubble's primary mirror to develop COSTAR, which basically acted as "glasses" for the telescope