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TIL of streaking, a mechanical technique used to isolate a pure strain from a single species of microorganism

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78YaM TIL About "Marriage by Proxy" where couples can be married in some US states with only one of them physically present and the other represented by a stand-in. One state, Montana, a "double proxy" is possible where neither party is present at the wedding.
wLOMJ TIL that the song "The Night Begins To Shine" was featured on the kids TV show "Teen Titans Go" as a throw-away joke and would eventually become #1 on iTunes rock charts.
4XrR5 TIL about Mongolian surgeon Sergelen Orgoi who developed low cost liver transplant technique which cost only 3-5k usd only.
6wXX TIL the human brain remains half awake when sleeping in a new environment for the first time.
1x04 TIL Stephen Hawking’s birthday (January 8, 1942) is the 300th anniversary of the death of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei.