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TIL China was the first country in the world to produce steel preceding Europe by over 1000 years but failed to reach an industrial revolution due to the absence of a middle class

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gMPAA TIL that Eugene Shoemaker is the only man buried on the Moon. On July 31, 1999, some of his ashes were carried to the Moon by the Lunar Prospector space probe in a capsule.
ymkM TIL that the movie The Departed was a remake of the Hong-Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs, and was very loyal to the source material.
wW7W TIL if you want to comment on the Norwegian news site, NRKbeta you must first take a quiz to test your basic understanding of the article. This is done to prevent ranting and foster positive conversations
OoLNa TIL in the 1930s a DuPont chemist found that crystals of a substance called PTC (phenylthiocarbamide) tasted very bitter to some but were tasteless to others (about 75% taste bitterness). Researchers found three variants in a gene called TAS2R38. Two copies of this variant make you non-taster.
mmwp TIL during the Vietnam War Jane Fonda called American POW’s “hypocrits and liars” and believed they weren’t being subject to torture and inhuman treatment.