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TIL Researchers in Siberia found a perfectly-preserved 42,000-year-old baby horse buried under the permafrost. It was in such good condition that its blood was still in a liquid state, allowing scientists to extract it.

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b9Vpj TIL housewives in India own 11% of the world's gold. More than the reserves of Switzerland, Germany and the United States put together
wL4jJ TIL there are rocks in California that are highly-polished from the suspected rubbing extinct Columbian Mammoths performed on them 1,000s of years ago during the Ice Age.
GYn45 TIL of Chen Si, a Chinese man who has spent every weekend since 2003 voluntarily patrolling the world's most popular suicide site. As a result, he has prevented over 300 people from jumping over the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge.
kOPdW TIL that James Cameron decided to quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry after watching Star Wars.
YpBLd TIL: to make an extra buck, Rod Serling of “The Twilight Zone“ tested parachutes and other experimental technologies for the Air Force. “In one instance, he earned $1,000 for testing a jet ejection seat that had killed the previous three testers.”