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TIL Sharks Are Actually Older Than Trees

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4kBZJ TIL Chinese researchers developed a face-identification model to tell giant pandas apart
MeNyb TIL that the House of Representatives briefly renamed the "french fries" in their cafeteria to "freedom fries" as part of a protest at France's opposition to a war on Iraq
kXn7 TIL that Alan Turing, the pioneering computer scientist / cryptographer, and Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels, worked together during WWII. They rarely agreed on anything.
1alEP TIL it wasn't a single drug discovery that stopped people from dying of AIDS in the 1990s but the discovery that combining several drugs would each affect a different aspect of HIV and together force the virus into undetectable remission, called the "AIDS cocktail"
gmy9 TIL that in the UK, restaurants MUST supply free tap water if they serve alcohol.