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TIL Researchers at Yale cooked 4000-year old Babylonian stews from recipes written on ancient clay tablets, including a stew made from onion and leeks, beets, and broth of lamb

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e0nJg TIL dying stars cause space to smell like "hot metal, diesel fumes and barbecue." Astronauts have also compared the smell of the moon to "spent gunpowder."
neXOP TIL Humans are bioluminescent and glow in the dark. The light is just too weak for human eyes to detect
EgD6V TIL DreamWorks hired 120 former NASA scientists to help them develop technology for films such as “Home,” “Rise of the Guardians,” “Kung Fu Panda 2,” and “How To Train Your Dragon 2.”
b6ONQ TIL that a surgery resident is required to be the surgeon in 850 operations, as part of their five year residency training, in order to get board certified in general surgery.
R7W8a TIL About "Intraplate Earthquakes" which refers to earthquakes that occur in places away from typical earthquake areas. This means that earthquakes could happen anywhere and puts cities and towns thought to be "earthquake safe zones" at a very high risk due to the unpreparedness for such events