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TIL that Georgia is considered the birthplace or "cradle of wine", where archaeologists have traced the world's first known creation of wine back to 6,000 BC.

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ggy4 TIL Biotech firm Pembient has managed to 3-D print fake rhino horns that are genetically identical knock offs. The company plans to flood Chinese rhino horn market at one-eighth of the price of the original, undercutting the price poachers can get and forcing them out eventually.
E5r7 TIL Google hired a Camel to map a desert for Google StreetView
wLy4Y TIL of the Crichton Leprechaun, a supposed sighting of a leprechaun in a tree in Crichton, a neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama
VBEEm TIL That a Quantum machine performed a very specialized computation in 200 seconds that would taken the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to solve.
6PRX TIL That When the withdrawal method is correctly and consistently used, it successfully prevents pregnancy 96 percent of the time. This compares to the 98 percent success rate achieved by condom usage.