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TIL About CRISPR-Cas9’s New Frontier: Rewriting Genetic Memories and sickle cell disease.

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MeP6b TIL on Kinmen (a small group of islands off the coast of mainland China controlled by Taiwan) knives are made from spent artillery shells. "Kinmen knives" were originally made from Allied artillery during WWII; blacksmiths now use shells fired from mainland China during the 1950s-1970s.
JYLBl TIL that the town of Zzyzx in California was named by a quack doctor to purposely be the last listing in any dictionary or atlas
R5k7a TIL that the Quokka, when faced with a predator, will drop it's baby from it's pouch to provide a distraction for it to escape.
xmRB TIL The phrase “That’s greek to me” exists in nearly every language. But the language that is meant differs from region to region.
wLLW6 TIL that a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-II successfully took four pictures of the death camp in action that were smuggled out of the camp by the Polish resistance in a toothpaste tube #1-2 cremation of corpses in a fire pit from the chamber #3 naked women before they enter the chamber #4 miss-aimed