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TIL that Alan Turing dabbled in embryology, proposing the existence of molecules called morphogens that diffuse within embryos and control how they develop; the people who confirmed his proposal won a Nobel Prize.

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bNwQ TIL that Jackie Kennedy’s Pink Chanel suit won’t be publicly displayed until at least 2103 and is kept in a secret location in which “The temperature hovers between 65 and 68 °F (18 and 20 °C) degrees; the humidity is 40 percent; the air is changed six times an hour.”
6XKX TIL Martin Van Buren left the Democratic party and ran for president in 1848 for the Free Soil party, an anti-slavery and “true democratic” party
8avMX TIL that, in figure drawing, a normal person is 7-and-a-half heads tall, but heroic figures like gods and superheroes are drawn 8-and-a-half heads tall, adding a bigger chest and longer legs.
QJbDL TIL "Nearly 75 percent of all aluminum ever produced is still in use today" due to recycling
jNnOE TIL of the Da Silva family from Brasilia, whose members have 6 functional digits in each hand.