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TIL Scientists are close to achieving "de-extinction" projects using CRISPR technology, which could bring back extinct species like woolly mammoths and the Dodo bird

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7rNlb TIL that 9/11 was a "Super Tuesday" of music releases - including hugely anticipated albums by Jay-Z, Bob Dylan, Nickelback, Ben Folds, Mariah Carey and many more, and TWO album covers that depicted WTC being on fire
MQE0 TIL: Youtube has a charts page which is virtually inaccessible through the front page.
X09ok TIL that in 2024 Chechnya forbade music outside of an 80-116 BPM tempo to comply with Chechen traditions
vPb04 TIL during WWII, the US military tested mustard gas on Japanese American, Puerto Rican, and African American soldiers. Rollin Edwards recalled: "It felt like you were on fire... Guys started screaming... It took all the skin off your hands."
MeyWW TIL in 1987 Ruthie Mae McCoy was murdered by assailants hiding in her apartment walls that crawled out of her bathroom mirror cabinet.